The Professor of Desire
, by ROTH, PHILIPNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780679749004 | 0679749004
- Cover: Trade Paper
- Copyright: 3/15/1994
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 beor how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domesticity of childhood into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a menage a 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.