The Professor of Desire, (Paperback)

<p><b>"Ranks among the major achievements in the literature of our time." --<i>Village Voice</i></b></p><p><b>"A thoughtful ... elegant novel.... A fine display of literary skills."</b> <b>--<i>New York Times Book Review</i></b></p><p><b>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.<br>&amp;#8203;&amp;#8203;&amp;#8203;&amp;#8203;&amp;#8203;&amp;#8203;&amp;#8203;</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 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.</p>

• The Professor of Desire, (Paperback)
• Author: Mariner Books Classics
• ISBN: 9780063499898
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-12-15
• Page Count: 256