The Professor of Desire

By: Philip Roth

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Paperback | 3 January 1998 | Edition Number 1

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Philip Roth's entire oeuvre - 31 books - to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016

As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself as 'a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes' - an identity that will cling to him for a lifetime. As Philip Roth follows Kapesh from the domesticity of childhood out into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a menage trois in London to the depths of loneliness in New York, Kapesh confronts the central dilemma of pleasure- how to make a truce between dignity and desire; and how to survive the ordeal of an unhallowed existence.

Industry Reviews

"Philip Roth is a great historian of modern eroticism" * Milan Kundera * "A thoughtful, even gentle, stylistically elegant novel about the paradox of male desire, that lacerating passion which may lead to happiness but cannot survive it" * New York Times Book Review * "He writes so well. His prose is both elegant and furious. It can be witty, tender and brutal in a single paragraph" -- Melvyn Bragg "No one writing can juggle the somber and the ludicrous more adroitly than Roth" * The Time * "A profound and commanding book... There is great beauty in it, humanity and tenderness" * Sunday Telegraph *

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