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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 á trois 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
- 1994
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Philip Roth
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 1994
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0679749004
- ISBN13
- 9780679749004
- Series
- David Kepesh
- Tags
- Fiction, Love, Contemporary Fiction, USA, Relationships, Erotica, American Literature, Sexuality & Intimacy, Jews, Marriage, Teens, America, 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 á trois 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