{"product_id":"breast","title":"Breast","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e';Terrificinventive and sane and very funny. The trick which is the heart of the book is brilliantand rich with meaning.' \u003ci\u003e New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e';Hilarious, serious, visionary, logical, sexual-philosophical; the ending amazes.' Cynthia Ozick\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn Philip Roth's brilliant take on  \u003ci\u003eThe Metamorphosis\u003c\/i\u003e, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformedinto a 155-pound breast.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike 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 giant beetle, the narrator of Philip Roth's richly conceived fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. What follows is a deliriously funny yet touching exploration of full implications of Kepesh's metamorphosisa daring heretical book that brings us face to face with the intrinsic strangeness of sex and subjectivity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57495504290165,"sku":"9780063499980","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/breast","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}