{"product_id":"the-breast","title":"The Breast","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Terrific...inventive and sane and very funny. The trick which is the heart of the book is brilliant...and rich with meaning.\" --\u003ci\u003e New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Hilarious, serious, visionary, logical, sexual-philosophical; the ending amazes.\" --Cynthia Ozick\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn Philip Roth's brilliant take on \u003ci\u003eThe Metamorphosis\u003c\/i\u003e, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed--into a 155-pound breast.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a giant beetle, the narrator of Philip Roth's richly conceived fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. What follows is a deliriously funny yet touching exploration of full implications of Kepesh's metamorphosis--a daring heretical book that brings us face to face with the intrinsic strangeness of sex and subjectivity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books Classics","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":67935297503600,"sku":"9780063499980","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0954\/1304\/3568\/files\/imageloader_7ee61b19-a436-40e7-8833-07dcb6acb6b3.jpg?v=1792891869","url":"https:\/\/aveson.store\/products\/the-breast","provider":"Aveson","version":"1.0","type":"link"}