{"product_id":"9781501276309","title":"The Breast","description":"Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a giant beetle, the narrator of Philip Roth's richly conceived fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. What follows is a deliriously funny yet touching exploration of the full implications of Kepesh's metamorphosis—a daring, heretical book that brings us face to face with the intrinsic strangeness of sex and subjectivity.\u003cp\u003eAuthor Biography: In the 1990s Philip Roth won America's four major literary awards in succession: the National Book Critics Circle Award for \u003ci\u003ePatrimony\u003c\/i\u003e (1991), the PEN\/Faulkner Award for \u003ci\u003eOperation Shylock\u003c\/i\u003e (1993), the National Book Award for \u003ci\u003eSabbath's Theater\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), and the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e (1997). He won the Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union for \u003ci\u003eI Married a Communist\u003c\/i\u003e (1998); in the same year he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House. Previously he won the National Book Critics Circle Award for \u003ci\u003eThe Counterlife\u003c\/i\u003e (1986) and the National Book Award for his first book, \u003ci\u003eGoodbye, Columbus\u003c\/i\u003e (1959). In 2000 he published \u003ci\u003eThe Human Stain\u003c\/i\u003e, concluding a trilogy that depicts the ideological ethos of postwar America. For \u003ci\u003eThe Human Stain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eRoth received his second PEN\/Faulkner Award as well as Britain's W. H. Smith Award for the Best Book of the Year. In 2001 he received the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in fiction, given every six years \"for the entire work of the recipient.\"  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brilliance Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061945942256,"sku":"9781501276309","price":9.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781501276309_p0.jpg?v=1763708008","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781501276309","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}