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Title: THE DYING ANIMAL
By: Philip Roth
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0099422697
ISBN 13: 9780099422693
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Publisher: VINTAGE PUBLISHING
Pub. date: 5 April, 2002
Pages: 176
Description: David Kepesh, white-haired, and now in his sixties, is 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....
Synopsis: '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 America's most unflaggingly energetic and morally serious novelist launches perhaps his fiercest book. The speaker is David Kepesh, white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture 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, humblingly beautiful twenty-four-year-old daughter of Cuban exiles. When he becomes involved with her, Kepesh finds himself dragged helplessly into the quagmire of sexual jealousy and loss. In chronicling the themes of eros and mortality, licence and repression, freedom and sacrifice. The Dying Animal is a burning coal of a book, filled with intellectual heat and not a little danger.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Vintage
Returns: Returnable
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"BOOKCLUB-IN-A-BOX" DISCUSSES THE NOVEL "THE HUMAN STAIN" (PB)
AMERICAN PASTORAL
AMERICAN PASTORAL
AMERICAN PASTORAL
AMERICAN PASTORAL (MANDARIN EDITION)
AMERICAN PASTORAL (PB)
AMERICAN PASTORAL (PB)
AMERICAN PASTORAL (PB)
AMERICAN PASTORAL MTI (PB)
DECEPTION
DECEPTION
DECEPTION (PB)
DER MENSCHLICHE MAKEL (PB)
DYING ANIMAL (PB)
EL TEATRO DE SABBATH
EVERYMAN
EVERYMAN (PB)
EVERYMAN (PB)
EVERYMAN (PB)
EXIT GHOST
EXIT GHOST (HB)
EXIT GHOST (HB)
EXIT GHOST (PB)
EXIT LE FANTOME (PB)
FACTS (PB)
GHOST WRITER (PB)
GOODBYE, COLUMBUS
GOODBYE, COLUMBUS (PB)
GOODBYE, COLUMBUS (PB)
GOODBYE, COLUMBUS (PB)
GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL (PB)
HUMAN STAIN
HUMAN STAIN (PB)
HUMBLING (PB)
HUMBLING THE EXP (PB)
I FATTI. AUTOBIOGRAFIA DI UN ROMANZIERE
I MARRIED A COMMUNIST
I MARRIED A COMMUNIST
I MARRIED A COMMUNIST (HB)
I MARRIED A COMMUNIST (PB)
I MARRIED A COMMUNIST (PB)
I MARRIED A COMMUNIST(MANDARIN EDITION)
IL FANTASMA ESCE DI SCENA (HB)
IL PROFESSORE DI DESIDERIO (HB)
INDIGNATION
INDIGNATION (CD)
INDIGNATION (CD)
INDIGNATION (HB)
INDIGNATION (MTI) (PB)
INDIGNATION (PB)
INDIGNATION (PB)
INDIGNATION (PB)
INDIGNATION (PB)
INDIGNAZIONE (PB)
J'AI EPOUSE UN COMMUNISTE (PB)
L''ANIMALE MORENTE
L''UMILIAZIONE
L'UMILIAZIONE (HB)
LA BETE QUI MEURT (PB)
LA CONJURA CONTRA AMERICA (PB)
LA CONTREVIE (PB)
LA MACCHIA UMANA
LA TACHE (PB)
LAMENTO DI PORTNOY
LE COMPLOT CONTRE L'AMERIQUE (PB)
LE RABAISSEMENT (PB)
LETTING GO
LETTING GO (PB)
MASONRY IN THE FORMATION OF OUR GOVERNMENT 1761-1799 (HB)
MAURIZIO CATTELAN (PB)
MENDELSSOHN IS ON THE ROOF
MENDELSSOHN IS ON THE ROOF (PB)
MY LIFE AS A MAN
MY LIFE AS A MAN (PB)
MY LIFE AS A MAN (PB)
NEMESIS
NEMESIS (HB)
NEMESIS (PB)
NEMESIS (PB)
NEMESIS (PB)
NEMESIS (PB)
NEMESIS (PB)
NOVELS 1993 - 1995 (HB)
NOVELS AND OTHER NARRATIVES 1986-1991 (HB)
OPERATION SHYLOCK
OPERATION SHYLOCK
OPERATION SHYLOCK (AUD)
OPERATION SHYLOCK (PB)
OPERATION SHYLOCK (PB)
OTHER MEN'S DAUGHTERS (PB)
OUR GANG
OUR GANG (PB)
PARLONS TRAVAIL (PB)
PASTORALE AMERICANA
PASTORALE AMERICANE (PB)
PATRIMONY
PATRIMONY
PATRIMONY (PB)
PATRIMONY: A TRUE STORY
PHILIP ROTH: NEMESES (LOA #237) (HB)
PHILIP ROTH: NOVELS & STORIES 1959-1962 (LOA #157) (HB)
PHILIP ROTH: NOVELS 1967-1972 (LOA #158) (HB)
PHILIP ROTH: NOVELS 1973-1977 (LOA #165) (HB)
PHILIP ROTH: NOVELS 2001-2007 (LOA #236) (HB)
PHILIP ROTH: WHY WRITE? COLLECTED NONFICTION 1960-2013 (HB)
PLOT AGAINST AMERICA
PLOT AGAINST AMERICA
PLOT AGAINST AMERICA (MOVIE TIE-IN EDITION) (PB)
PLOT AGAINST AMERICA (PB)
PLOT AGAINST AMERICA (PB)
PORTNOY ET SON COMPLEXE
PORTNOY''S COMPLAINT (PB)
PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT
PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT (PB)
PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT (PB)
READING MYSELF AND OTHERS
READING MYSELF AND OTHERS (PB)
READING MYSELF AND OTHERS (PB)
SABBATH''S THEATER (PB)
SABBATH'S THEATER
SABBATH'S THEATER (PB)
SABBATH'S THEATER (PB)
SHOP TALK
SHOP TALK
SHOP TALK (MANDARIN EDITION)
SHOP TALK (PB)
THE ANATOMY LESSON
THE ANATOMY LESSON (PB)
THE BREAST
THE BREAST (PB)
THE COUNTERLIFE
THE COUNTERLIFE (PB)
THE COUNTERLIFE (PB)
THE DYING ANIMAL
THE FACTS
THE FACTS (PB)
THE GHOST WRITER
THE GHOST WRITER (PB)
THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL
THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL (PB)
THE HUMAN STAIN
THE HUMAN STAIN (MANDARIN EDITION)
THE HUMAN STAIN (PB)
THE HUMBLING
THE HUMBLING (PB)
THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA
THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA (CD)
THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA (HB)
THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA (HB)
THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA (PB)
THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA (VINTAGE FUTURE) (PB)
THE PRAGUE ORGY
THE PRAGUE ORGY (PB)
THE PROFESSOR OF DESIRE
THE PROFESSOR OF DESIRE (PB)
UN HOMME (PB)
VINTAGE SIN: INFERNO & SABBATH'S THEATER
WHEN SHE WAS GOOD
WHEN SHE WAS GOOD (PB)
WHEN SHE WAS GOOD (PB)
WIE GELEGENHEITEN RATGEBERNETZWERKE STRUKTURIEREN (PB)
X 24 HUMAN STAIN DUMPBIN
X 24 I MARRIED A COMMUNIST DUMPBIN
X 24 PHILIP ROTH MIXED DUMPBIN
ZUCKERMAN BOUND
ZUCKERMAN BOUND (PB)
ZUCKERMAN BOUND:A TRILOGY AND EPILOGUE
ZUCKERMAN UNBOUND
ZUCKERMAN UNBOUND (PB)
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