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-from the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral.
"[A] disturbing masterpiece." -The New York Review of Books
No 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.
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. The Dying Animal is a burning coal of a book, filled with intellectual heat and not a little danger.
| ISBN: | 9780375714122 |
| Publication date: | 9th July 2002 |
| Author: | Philip Roth |
| Publisher: | Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 176 pages |
| Series: | Vintage International |
| Genres: |
General Fiction Narrative theme: Interior life |
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-from the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral.
"[A] disturbing masterpiece." -The New York Review of Books
No 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.
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. The Dying Animal is a burning coal of a book, filled with intellectual heat and not a little danger.
The Dying Animal features in the following genres: General Fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life
The Dying Animal is available in Paperback
The Dying Animal was written by Philip Roth and published by Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
The Dying Animal has 176 pages
Yes it is part of Vintage International series