# The Breast

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- Book: [The Breast](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-roth/the-breast) ([The Breast.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-roth/the-breast.md))
- Authors: [Philip Roth](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-roth)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9947-751-8
- Pages: 96
- Published: 2016-10-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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 monstrous cockroach, the narrator of Philip Roth's fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. What follows is a deliriously funny yet moving exploration of the full implications of Kepesh's metamorphosis; audacious, heretical - as darkly hilarious as it is existentially unnerving - making new the silliness, triviality and wonderful meaninglessness of lived human experience.