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The Dying Animal by Roth, Philip is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Dying Animal about?

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 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. 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 reads The Dying Animal?

Author

Roth, Philip

Publisher

Mariner Books

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780618135875

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.61 / 5 (146 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13