The Dying Animal

David Kepesh is a white haired and over sixty an eminent TV culture critic andstar lecturer at a New York college when he meets Consuela Castillo adecorous well... » 

David Kepesh is a white haired and over sixty an eminent TV culture critic andstar lecturer at a New York college when he meets Consuela Castillo adecorous wellmannered student of twentyfour the daughter of wealthy Cubanexiles who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder and haunts him for thenext eight years. Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s freed him from hiswife and child Kepesh has experimented with living what he calls anemancipated manhood beyond the reach of family or a mate. Over the years hehad refined that exuberant decade of protest and licence into an orderly way oflife in which he is both unimpeded in the world of Eros and studiously devotedto his aesthetic pursuits. But the youth and beauty of this newly hatched womana masterpiece as Kepesh describes Consuela of volupte undo him completely.His worldliness his confidence his reason desert him and on the brink of oldage a maddening sexual possessiveness transports him to the depths ofdeforming jealousy. The lighthearted erotic tale with which he began evolvesinto a poignant tragic story of love and loss.BK0807Roth «