Professor of Desire - Softcover

Roth, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553118862 ISBN 13: 9780553118865

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1970

Synopsis

SAME COVER AS STOCK PHOTO SHOWN. SCUFFING, EDGE WEAR AND SOME DINGS ON COVERS & SPINE. INSIDE COVERS AND PAGES CLEAN, AND WITH AGE TANNING.

About this title

From the Back Cover

"Ranks among the major achievements in the literature of our time." —Village Voice

"No one writing can juggle the somber and the ludicrous more adroitly than Roth." —Time

"Philip Roth is a great historian of modern eroticism.... [He] speaks of a sexuality that questions itself; it is still hedonism, but it is problematic, wounded, ironic hedonism. His is the uncommon union of confession and irony. Infinitely vulnerable in his sincerity and infinitely elusive in his irony." —Milan Kundera

"A thoughtful...elegant novel.... A fine display of literary skills." —The New York Times Book Review

About the Author

In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. 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. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has 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.” Recently Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. Roth is the only living American novelist to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell
• Publication date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553118862
• ISBN 13: 9780553118865
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248