THE BREAST by Philip Roth (1972)

Read by . . : David Colacci
Publisher . : Brilliance Audio (2009)
ISBN . . . .: 1441805516 | 9781441805515
Format . . .: MP3. 8 tracks, 80 MB
Bitrate . . : ~100 kbps (iTunes 10, VBR (highest), Mono, 44.1 kHz)
Source . . .: 2 CDs (1 hr 50 min)
Genre . . . : Fiction
Unabridged .: Unabridged

The first of the "Kepesh novels"
 -The Breast (1972)
 -The Professor of Desire (1977)
 -The Dying Animal (2001)

Nicely tagged and labeled, cover scan included.
 (Note: Another production FAIL by the dolts at Brilliance 
Audio: always 99 Tracks per CD, without consistent 
chapater breaks at the start of them. Fail.)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Breast

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From Wiki:

The Breast is a novella by Philip Roth, in which the main character,
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. Kepesh, a literature 
professor, compares his plight with that of fictional characters such as 
Gregor Samsa in Kafka's novella The Metamorphosis and Kovalyov in 
Nikolai Gogol's short story "The Nose". Throughout the novel, he 
describes the various sexual and physical feelings he has while people 
handle him, while initiating sex with his girlfriend, and while he is 
alone.
During a stay on the beach with his girlfriend, Claire, Kepesh had 
wished to have breasts, to be a breast, and he struggles with the idea 
that apparently this wish was fulfilled while other more important 
wishes were not.

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From BrillianceAudio.fail

Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one 
morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka’s 
protagonist turned into a giant beetle, the narrator of Philip Roth’s 
richly conceived fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. What 
follows is a deliriously funny yet touching exploration of the full 
implications of Kepesh’s metamorphosis—a daring, heretical book that 
brings us face to face with the intrinsic strangeness of sex and 
subjectivity. 

Technically at least, THE BREAST seems to me Roth's best book so far. 
The humor and pathos (it has fair amounts of both) come from his solid 
grasp of how life is, his firm knowledge of the importance of strength 
of character and the will to live... THE BREAST is terrific for a thing 
of its kind: inventive and sane and very funny, though filthy of 
course... It's incredible, in fact, how smart he is for a man so hung 
up with his you-know-what...
"The Breast is terrific... inventive and sane and very funny. The trick
which is the heart of the book is brilliant... and rich with meaning."
-- John Gardner, New York Times Book Review, 07/17/1972


"Hilarious, serious, visionary, logical, sexual-philosophical; the 
ending amazes—the joke takes three steps beyond savagery and satire and 
turns into a sublimeness of pity. One knows when one is reading 
something that will permanently enter the culture."—Cynthia Ozick    


Philip Roth titles in the FPL:
 -Goodbye, Columbus +5	(1959)	5 readers
 -Letting Go  		(1962)	Luke Daniels
 -When She Was Good 	(1967)	Tanya Eby
>>The Breast		(1972)	David Colacci
 -The Great American Novel(1973)James Daniels
 -My Life as a Man	(1974)	Dan John Miller
 -The Professor of Desire(1977)	David Colacci
 -The Ghost Writer 	(1979)	George Guidall
 -Zuckerman unbound	(1981)	George Guidall
 -The Anatomy Lesson 	(1983)	George Guidall
 -The Counterlife	(1986)	George Guidall
 -The Facts: Autobio	(1988)	Mel Foster
 -Deception 		(1990)	D Colacci & S Ericken
 -Patrimony		(1991)	George Guidall
 -American Pastoral	(1997)	Ron Silver
 -I Married a Communist	(1998)	Ron Silver
 -The Dying Animal	(2001)	Tom Stechschulte
 -The Plot Against America(2004)Ron Silver
 -Everyman		(2006)	George Guidall
 -Exit Ghost		(2007)	George Guidall
 -Indignation		(2008)	Dick Hill
 -The Humbling		(2009)	Dick Hill
 -Nemesis		(2010)	Dennis Boutsikaris