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The Dying Animal

Written by: Philip Roth
Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
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Publisher's Summary

Philip Roth, one of the best-known and award winning literary masters of our time, engages his readership with insightful and challenging novels of the human condition.

With The Dying Animal, he revisits the character David Kepesh. At age 60, Kapesh is drawn out of his carefully ordered existence and into an obsessive affair with one of his students.
©2001 Philip Roth (P)2008 Recorded Books
Psychological World Literature Literary Fiction Contemporary
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What the critics say

"Insidiously disturbing and completely irresistable...All sympathetic readers will find themselves wondering: Is Philip Roth now our finest living novelist?" ( The Washington Post)
"A distinguished addition to Roth's increasingly remarkable literary career." ( The San Francisco Chronicle)
“Roth is a mesmerizing writer, whose very language has the vitality of a living organism.” ( Los Angeles Times)

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the story gets weaker, more self pitying with each reread

melodramatic self pity; not as great a novel as i had initially thought - which i hate to say, actually.

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