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| Verlag | Vintage |
| Auflage | 2002 |
| Seiten | 156 |
| Format | 13,0 x 19,8 x 1,2 cm |
| B-Format | |
| Gewicht | 132 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 0099422697 |
| EAN | 9780099422693 |
| Bestell-Nr | 09942269EA |
Das geordnete Leben von David Kepesh, dem 60-jährigen, gestandenen Kulturkritiker und Lehrer, gerät aus den Fugen, als er Consuela Castillo, der 24-jährigen Tochter eines reichen Exil-Kubaners begegnet. Immer hatte er sich schützen können, doch nun im Alter verfällt er einer stark von Eifersucht geprägten sexuellen Besessenheit.
Philip Roth's entire oeuvre - 31 books - to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016
'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.
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Brief and brilliant Frank Kermode London Review of Books
