The Professor of Desire -- Philip Roth

<b>From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <i>American Pastoral</i>--"a thoughtful...elegant" (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>) 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.<br></b><br> 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" (<i>Village Voice</i>).<br><br><b>Author:</b> Philip Roth<br><b>Publisher:</b> Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group<br><b>Published:</b> 03/15/1994<br><b>Pages:</b> 272<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.45lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.60d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780679749004<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>Library Journal</i> 06/01/1994 pg. 172<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for <i>American Pastoral</i>. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at<i> </i>the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American<i> </i>Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction.<i> </i>He twice won the National Book Award and the National<i> </i>Book Critics Circle Aw