ISBN: 9780618135875 - the dying animal (21 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you're not superior to sex. With these words our most unflaggingly energetic and morally serious novelist launches perhaps his fiercest book. The speaker is David Kepesh, white-haired and over sixty, an eminent cultural critic and star lecturer at a New York college-as well as an articulate propagandist of the sexual revolution. For years he has made a practice of sleeping with adventurous female students while maintaining an aesthete's critical distance. But now that distance has been annihilated. The agency of Kepesh's undoing is Consuela Castillo, the decorous and humblingly beautiful 24-year-old daughter of Cuban exiles. When he becomes involved with her, Kepesh finds himself dragged-helplessly, bitterly, furiously-into the quagmire of sexual jealousy and loss. In chronicling this descent, Philip Roth performs a breathtaking set of variations on the themes of eros and mortality, license and repression, selfishness and sacrifice. The Dying Animal is a burning coal of a book, filled with intellectual heat and not a little danger.…

Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 12mo. Black bds. w. black lettering on backstr. Dj. unclipped, in mylar, pasted. Ffep partially removed. Stamp on 1/2 t.p. 156pp. Very clean ex-lib. CONTENTS MINT.

Hardcover. Zustand: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new. Tear along dust jacket front.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good copy with clean pages and dust jacket. Previous ownership stamp to front free end paper.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 2001. First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A clean tight copy, with publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($23.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. Ships in well padded box. The Dying Animal is the third book in a series portraying the life of the fictional professor, preceded by The Breast (1972) and The Professor of Desire (1977). Source for the Isabel Coixet film ELEGY, starring Penélope Cruz and Ben Kingsley. …

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. Advance Reading Copy. The third book to feature David Kepesh who also appeared in "The Breast" and "The Professor of Desire." Basis for a movie adaptation that starred Penelope Cruz and Ben Kingsley. A clean near fine copy in wrappers with some minor wear and with publishing info on the rear cover.…

Zustand: Good. 8vo. 156 pp. Very Good+, Black Cloth On Black Boards, Dust Jacket with slight rubbing & edge wear; shelf wear.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 176 pages. 7.50x5.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. This short novel features David Kepesh, protagonist of The Breast and The Professor of Desire, as a young co-ed puts his life into erotic disorder. Filmed in 2008 as "Elegy," starring Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz. Fine in fine dustjacket.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good.