{"product_id":"the-dying-animal-isbn-9780375714122","title":"The Dying Animal","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe unforgettable story of an affair between a star lecturer at a New York college and the beautiful daughter of Cuban exiles—and the quagmire of sexual jealousy and loss that ensues—from the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] disturbing masterpiece.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you’re not superior to sex. With these words our most unflaggingly energetic and morally serious novelist launches perhaps his fiercest book. The speaker is David Kepesh, white-haired and over sixty, an eminent cultural critic and star lecturer at a New York college—as well as an articulate propagandist of the sexual revolution. For years he has made a practice of sleeping with adventurous female students while maintaining an aesthete’s critical distance. But now that distance has been annihilated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The agency of Kepesh’s undoing is Consuela Castillo, the decorous and humblingly beautiful 24-year-old daughter of Cuban exiles. When he becomes involved with her, Kepesh finds himself dragged—helplessly, bitterly, furiously—into jealousy and loss. In chronicling this descent, Philip Roth performs a breathtaking set of variations on the themes of eros and mortality, license and repression, selfishness and sacrifice. \u003ci\u003eThe Dying Animal\u003c\/i\u003e is a burning coal of a book, filled with intellectual heat and not a little danger.“A disturbing masterpiece.” \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—The New York Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e“Sorrowful, sexy, elegant  ... [A] distinguished addition to Roth’s increasingly remarkable literary career.”\u003cb\u003e —\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Roth is a mesmerizing writer, whose very language has  the vitality of a living organism.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “No one can come close  to Roth’s comic genius and breadth of moral imperative.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ePHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAcademy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHe twice won the National Book Award and the National\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBook Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN\/Faulkner\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAward three times. In 2005 \u003ci\u003eThe Plot Against America \u003c\/i\u003ereceived\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ehistorical novel on an American theme for 2003–2004.”\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eRoth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ein 2006 the PEN\/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN\/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eMedal at the White House, and was later named the fourth\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003erecipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018.Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302322786533,"sku":"NP9780375714122","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375714122.jpg?v=1767739103","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-dying-animal-isbn-9780375714122","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}