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The Professor of Desire
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9780063499898
Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
Published: Dec 15 2026
Pages: 256
Language: English
Ranks among the major achievements in the literature of our time. --Village Voice
A thoughtful ... elegant novel.... A fine display of literary skills. --New York Times Book Review
Philip Roth's profound and often hilarious novel--the central book in Roth's Kepesh trilogy--about where we seek pleasure and why we flee it.
As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes. Little does he realize how prophetic his motto will be--or how damning. For as 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, 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.
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