{"product_id":"the-breast","title":"The Breast","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhilip Roth's 1972 novella is a deliberately odd object: David Kepesh, a literature professor, wakes one morning to discover he has been transformed into a giant breast. The premise is Kafka relocated to a New York suburb, and Roth treats it with the clinical bitterness that characterized his early work. Kepesh catalogues sensation, memory, and the logistics of desire from inside a body he cannot control, while the novel asks whether identity is anything more than the sum of its appetites.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHolt, Rinehart and Winston published it in a compact hardcover, a format that suits the book's austere joke. It is short, grotesque, and more interested in embarrassment than titillation. The right reader is the one who finds Kafka's anxiety relocated to a Long Island suburb both funnier and more honest than most domestic realism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabound","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48479486476500,"sku":"0030037166","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/5410\/7860\/files\/9780030037160.jpg?v=1786813100","url":"https:\/\/checkout.vagaboundbooks.com\/products\/the-breast","provider":"Vagabound","version":"1.0","type":"link"}