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As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself "a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes". Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be - or how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domesticity of childhood into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a ménage a trios in London to the throes of loneliness in New York, he creates a supremely intelligent, affecting, and often hilarious novel about the dilemma of pleasure: where we seek it; why we flee it; and how we struggle to make a truce between dignity and desire.
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The Professor of Desire, Philip Roth
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- Released
- 1977
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- Title
- The Professor of Desire
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Philip Roth
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Released
- 1977
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 263
- ISBN10
- 0374237565
- ISBN13
- 9780374237561
- Series
- David Kepesh
- Tags
- Fiction, Love, Contemporary Fiction, USA, Erotica, Relationships, American Literature, Sexuality & Intimacy, Jews, Marriage, America, Teens, Loneliness, Breakup, separation, Divorce, University Novel
- First published
- 1977
- Original title
- The Professor of Desire
- Rating
- 3.6 out of 5
- Description
- As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself "a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes". Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be - or how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domesticity of childhood into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a ménage a trios in London to the throes of loneliness in New York, he creates a supremely intelligent, affecting, and often hilarious novel about the dilemma of pleasure: where we seek it; why we flee it; and how we struggle to make a truce between dignity and desire.