The dying animal
by Philip A. Roth
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"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.".
"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 volupte," undo him completely, and a maddening sexual possessiveness tranports him to the depths of deforming jealousy. The carefree erotic adventure evolves, over eight years, into a story of grim loss."--BOOK JACKET.
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Fiction, Teacher-student relationships, David Kepesh (Fictitious character), Women college students, College teachers, Intergenerational relations, New york (n.y.), fiction, College teachers, fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, psychological, Fiction, erotica, Literatură americană, Roman, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, erotica, generalPlaces
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Les livres de Kepesh: La bête qui meurt
Sep 02, 2004, GALLIMARD
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El animal moribundo = The Dying Animal
October 1, 2002, Santillana USA Publishing Company
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8420465062 9788420465067
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The dying animal
2002, Vintage International
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