The Dying Animal
The Dying Animal is a book written by Philip Roth. The book was published in 2002 and is listed under the College teachers category. For readers who want to quickly understand what this title offers, this page gives a clear overview of the book, including its description, author information, page count, ratings, and ISBN details.
The full title of the book is The Dying Animal. When available, the subtitle is , which gives extra context about the theme, focus, or main idea behind the book. According to the available description, ‘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 Animalis a burning coal of a book, filled with intellectual heat and not a little danger.
This book has 156 pages, making it useful for readers who want to know the approximate length before starting. It has an average rating of 3.62, based on 5683 ratings, which can help readers understand how other people have responded to it.
For cataloging and reference purposes, the ISBN-13 is 9780099422693, while the ISBN-10 is 0099422697. These numbers are helpful when searching for the exact edition of the book online, in libraries, or in bookstores.
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