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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12098834.
- catalog coverage "New York (N.Y.) Fiction.".
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "156 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0618135871".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Houghton Mifflin,".
- catalog spatial "New York (N.Y.) Fiction.".
- catalog subject "813/.54 21".
- catalog subject "College teachers Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Kepesh, David (Fictitious character) Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS3568.O855 D95 2001".
- catalog subject "Teacher-student relationships Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Women college students Fiction.".
- catalog title "The dying animal / Philip Roth.".
- catalog type "Erotic fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "Psychological fiction. lcgft".
- catalog type "Psychological fiction. lcsh".
- catalog type "Psychological fiction.".
- catalog type "text".