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The Dying Animal

The Dying Animal

The Dying Animal

Editorial: Vintage UK

Pàgines: 155

Any: 2002

EAN: 9780099422693

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Sobre el libro The Dying Animal de Philip Roth publicado por Vintage UK al 2002:

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...
Philip Roth

Sobre Philip Roth

Philip Roth (1933-2018) va obtenir el Premi Pulitzer en 1997 per Pastoral Americana. En 1998 va rebre la Medalla Nacional de les Arts a la Casa Blanca i, en 2002, el màxim guardó de l´Acadèmia Americana de les Arts i Lletres, la Medalla d´Or de Narrativa, prèviament atorgada a John Dues Passos, William Faulkner i Saul Bellow, entre altres. Ha estat guardonat en dues ocasions amb el National Book Award, el PEN/Faulkner Award i el National Book Critics Circle Award.

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