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Das geordnete Leben von David Kepesh, dem 60-jährigen, gestandenen Kulturkritiker und Lehrer, gerät aus den Fugen, als er Consuela Castillo, der 24-jährigen Tochter eines reichen Exil-Kubaners begegnet. Immer hatte er sich schützen können, doch nun im Alter verfällt er einer stark von Eifersucht geprägten sexuellen Besessenheit.

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Philip Roth´s entire oeuvre - 31 books - to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016

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´This is a vicious, furious book, unapologetically not of this age - it is also horribly funny and unflinchingly honest´ New Statesman

David Kepesh, white-haired, and now in his sixties, is an eminent cultural critic on NPR radio and a formidable lecturer at a New York college. For years he´s been casually, almost habitually, sleeping with the more spirited of his female students, though with an aesthete´s critical distance. But now he´s met Consuela Castillo, a twenty-four-year-old Cuban student of such head-turning beauty, that Kapesh finds himself dragged helplessly into a quagmire of sexual jealousy and loss.

The Dying Animal is a virtuoso performance from Philip Roth, following Kapesh through the tumult of erotic lust and the search for freedom, shackled by a mortal human body.

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"Brief and brilliant" Frank Kermode London Review of Books

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