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The Professor of Desire

The Professor of Desire

by PhilipRoth (Author)

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    Paperback 1995

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    Paperback 1998

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    Paperback 1998

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Synopsis

As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself 'a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes'. Little does he realise how prophetic this motto will be - or how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domesticity of his 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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 272
 Edition: New e.
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05 Oct 1995
ISBN 10: 0099389010
ISBN 13: 9780099389019
Book Overview: A deceptively simple story that raises profound questions about love and loss.

Media 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 *
Author Bio
Philip Roth (1933-2018) won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral in 1997. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House, and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner and Saul Bellow, among others. He twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians' Prize for `the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004'. Roth received PEN's two most prestigious prizes: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award `for a body of work . . . of enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship' and in 2007 the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, given to a writer whose `scale of achievement over a sustained career . . . places him or her in the highest rank of American literature'. In 2011 Roth won the International Man Booker Prize.