Ageing disgracefully; New American fiction; New fiction from Philip Roth.(Books and Arts)(Review)(Brief Article)
Economist (US), The, June, 2001
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The Dying Animal.
PHILIP ROTH fans will remember David Kepesh as the narrator-hero of two earlier novels, "The Breast" (1972) and "The Professor of Desire" (1977). The sex-obsessed pseud is back in "The Dying Animal". He's pushing 70 now but his adolescent libido rages on undiminished. Happily for him, as a part-time college lecturer and media pundit, he has no trouble meeting impressionable, pliant young bimbos.
Eight years ago, he tells an unidentified interlocutor as the novel opens, he embarked on an affair with a busty Cuban-American ...
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