The Breast

Philip Roth. Stated first edition, first printing. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. Unclipped dust jacket is in Very Good condition. Has a small tear on backside of jacket otherwise fine. The hardcover has no writing markings found in the book, which is in Near Fine condition, 78 pp. 

First edition of Philip Roth's (1933-1963) first book in a series portraying the life of the fictional professor David Kapesh. He wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed into a 155-pound female breast. Shades of Franz Kafka. "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"(Goodreads). This is the first of Roth's three David Kepesh novels, and was his 6th book.