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The Professor of Desire

Philip Roth

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The Professor of Desire won the Pulitzer Prize. From the author of American Pastoral—"a thoughtful...elegant" (The New York Times Book Review) and often hilarous 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. 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 à trois in London to the throes of loneliness in New York, he creates a novel that "ranks among the major achievements in the literature of our time" (Village Voice).

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Publisher
Vintage
Year
2022
ISBN-13
9780593684948
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Desire and sexualityIdentity and self-discoveryRelationships and loneliness

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