false 29776 20 David Kepesh is white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college, when he meets Consuela Castillo, a decorous, well-mannered student of twenty-four, the daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder.<BR> Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, when he left his wife and child, Kepesh has experimented with living what he calls an "emancipated manhood," beyond the reach of family or a mate. Over the years he has refined that exuberant decade of protest and license into an orderly life in which he is both unimpeded in the world of eros and studiously devoted to his aesthetic pursuits. But the youth and beauty of Consuela, "a masterpiece of volupté" undo him completely, and a maddening sexual possessiveness transports him to the depths of deforming jealousy. The carefree erotic adventure evolves, over eight years, into a story of grim loss.<BR> What is astonishing is how much of America's post-sixties sexual landscape is encompassed in THE DYING ANIMAL. Once again, with unmatched facility, Philip Roth entangles the fate of his characters with the social forces that shape our daily lives. And there is no character who can tell us more about the way we live with desire now than David Kepesh, whose previous incarnations as a sexual being were chronicled by Roth in THE BREAST and THE PROFESSOR OF DESIRE.<BR> A work of passionate immediacy as well as a striking exploration of attachment and freedom, THE DYING ANIMAL is intellectually bold, forcefully candid, wholly of our time, and utterly without precedent--a story of sexual discovery told about himself by a man of seventy, a story about the power of eros and the fact of death. 2683285 book 2001 The Dying Animal total:923|5:170|4:289|3:298|2:120|1:46| 923 3186 1193 141 4 19 false false Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 07:46:23 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 15:56:39 -0700 2009 The Dying Animal because it serves up a fictionalized treatise on sex and death -- the twin primordial drives, complementary and antagonistic, which according to that Viennese mystic define our motivations.

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As fast as you can. You are 24, he is 62. You have you whole life ahead of you. You have been reared by a large and caring family. He has made a career of living only for his own pleasure....ignoring his son.....and preying on his female students.

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A) When David Kepesh licks the menstrual blood from Consuela's leg.

B) When Consuela comes to David so he can feel the cancer on her breast.

Gotta love Phil Roth!!!

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Kepesh through most of the book is a tolerable Humbert Humbert, really well-written and nearly lovable, but a bit of a charming prick nonetheless, and of course a loquacious neurotic i...more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 21:15:03 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 21:17:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Dec 06 11:41:17 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 11:41:30 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Dec 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 09 16:42:35 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 21:08:53 -0800 2009 ...“The Dying Animal,” a brutal, short novel by Philip Roth that oozes like a wound. (This taken from ...more...]]>