“So, though I pretend otherwise, I know they are studying me, watching me as they would watch from a glass-bottomed boat the private life of the porpoise or the whale. I think of these aquatic mammals because of the over-all resemblance I now bear to them in size and shape, and because the porpoise in particular is said to be an intelligent, perhaps even a rational, creature.”
Roth’s novella in which the protagonist, David Kepesh, becomes a 155-pound breast. Throughout the book Kepesh fights with himself—part of him wishing to give in to bodily desires, while the other part wanting to be rational.
Author: Philip Roth
Title: The Breast
Edition: First Edition, first printing
Published: New York et al: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972
Physical Description: Hardcover; Octavo; 78p
Condition: Good condition dust jacket with edge wear and chipping—in new protector. Boards and spine clean with mild bumping to corners, edge wear, and crushing at spine ends. Gilt strong. Binding tight and square. Pages toned.
Comments: Clean copy
