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Name: The dying animal
Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Author: Philip Roth

David Kepesh, a distinguished TV culture critic and long‑tenured lecturer at a New York college, is suddenly drawn into an intense, erotic affair with Consuela Castillo, a poised and affluent 24‑year‑old student. Their relationship, born of a personal cross‑age encounter, disrupts Kepesh’s carefully structured life of aesthetic and intellectual pursuits. Over the course of eight years, the affair escalates into a deep, possessive bond that ultimately brings the professor to the brink of emotional ruin.

First publish date: 2001

Genre: Psychological Fiction/Psychological Drama

Authors: Philip Roth

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