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The Breast

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Originally published 1972
Authors Philip Roth
Page count78
Publishers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Country United States
GenresHumour
Novella
Literary Fiction
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
ID2396129
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About The Breast


The Breast is a novella by Philip Roth, in which the protagonist, David Kepesh, becomes a 155-pound breast. Throughout the book Kepesh fights with himself. Part of him wishes to give in to bodily desires, while the other part of him wants to be rational.

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" The cancer is in The Lab now, which is The Most important thing, " she told the.

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" The hardest Time Was waiting for surgery, thinking 'I have cancer inside me', " she told the newspaper.

" You're thinking 'It's grade three, what if it's spreading, what if it spreads tonight?'

" The Feeling of it made me feel disgusted, disgusting. That's The Time I was randomly crying, emotional.

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She Said her husband, Ben, had looked at The Scarred area and said it "'looked fine, normal'. That's Ben For You . He wasn't fazed".

" Every Day has got better in terms of soreness, " She Said .

" I think how quickly I have felt myself again has made me feel more positive. "

She added: " I've had so many messages from women who have started checking.

" Even if 10 people start, I'll have done my job. "

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