In 2012 he won Spain’s highest honor, the Prince of Asturias Award, and in 2013 he received France’s highest honor, Commander of the Legion of Honor. Product Description Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. It is one of Philip Roth's 'Roth novels' in which, though it is fiction, the author makes himself and his family the protagonists, rather than use his Zuckerman or Kepesh personas. seriously incredible, absolutely changed my life, really good.

2021 Subject: this is the breast book ive ever read. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. Publication date 1972 Topics College teachers, Metamorphosis, Breast, Kepesh, David (Fictitious character) Publisher New York.

Perfect for in-depth school essays and projects on The Breast. In 2005 Roth became the third living American writer to have his works published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. Suggested books and resources to further your understanding of The Breast by Philip Roth. Smith Award for the Best Book of the Year, making Roth the first writer in the forty-six-year history of the prize to win it twice. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003–2004” and the W.H. He twice won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner and Saul Bellow, among others. PHILIP ROTH (1933–2018) won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral in 1997.