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'This is a vicious, furious book, unapologetically not of this age - it is also horribly funny and unflinchingly honest' New Statesman

David Kepesh, white-haired, and now in his sixties, is an eminent cultural critic on NPR radio and a formidable lecturer at a New York college. For years he's been casually, almost habitually, sleeping with the more spirited of his female students, though with an aesthete's critical distance. But now he's met Consuela Castillo, a twenty-four-year-old Cuban student of such head-turning beauty, that Kapesh finds himself dragged helplessly into a quagmire of sexual jealousy and loss.

The Dying Animal is a virtuoso performance from Philip Roth, following Kapesh through the tumult of erotic lust and the search for freedom, shackled by a mortal human body.



Trade Review
Brief and brilliant -- Frank Kermode * London Review of Books *
A small disturbing masterpiece * New York Review of Books *
A fierce, compacted, sometimes brutal meditation on the passing of time and the meaning of freedom * Daily Telegraph *
Written with Roth's familiar elegance and composure * Sunday Times *
Intense and brilliant... Dazzling and compelling * Sunday Herald *

The Dying Animal

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    A Paperback / softback by Philip Roth

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage
      Published 7 March 2002
      ISBN-13 9780099422693
      978-0099422693
      ISBN-10 0099422697
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      Books by Philip Roth

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      'This is a vicious, furious book, unapologetically not of this age - it is also horribly funny and unflinchingly honest' New Statesman

      David Kepesh, white-haired, and now in his sixties, is an eminent cultural critic on NPR radio and a formidable lecturer at a New York college. For years he's been casually, almost habitually, sleeping with the more spirited of his female students, though with an aesthete's critical distance. But now he's met Consuela Castillo, a twenty-four-year-old Cuban student of such head-turning beauty, that Kapesh finds himself dragged helplessly into a quagmire of sexual jealousy and loss.

      The Dying Animal is a virtuoso performance from Philip Roth, following Kapesh through the tumult of erotic lust and the search for freedom, shackled by a mortal human body.



      Trade Review
      Brief and brilliant -- Frank Kermode * London Review of Books *
      A small disturbing masterpiece * New York Review of Books *
      A fierce, compacted, sometimes brutal meditation on the passing of time and the meaning of freedom * Daily Telegraph *
      Written with Roth's familiar elegance and composure * Sunday Times *
      Intense and brilliant... Dazzling and compelling * Sunday Herald *

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