{"product_id":"the-dying-animal-philip-roth-9780063499393","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip Roth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0063499398\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780063499393\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mariner Books Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Philip Roth","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874613080319,"sku":"9780063499393","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-dying-animal-philip-roth-9780063499393","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}