{"product_id":"the-dying-animal","title":"The Dying Animal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[A] disturbing masterpiece.\" \u003ci\u003e --New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Powerful...Roth's narrator newly illuminates the American body, the American soul, the life of loving and the love of life that has always been so all-consuming in his fiction.\"\u003ci\u003e -- Chicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe final, incendiary Kepesh novel and the 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\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.\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books Classics","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":67935297831280,"sku":"9780063499393","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0954\/1304\/3568\/files\/imageloader_2dbcfdd4-ea57-4641-a727-89262b44f930.jpg?v=1792891872","url":"https:\/\/aveson.store\/products\/the-dying-animal","provider":"Aveson","version":"1.0","type":"link"}