The professor of desire / Philip Roth

Roth, Philip

ISBN 10: 0140076778 / ISBN 13: 9780140076776

Published by New York: Penguin Books, 1985

About this Item

Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled. Minor browning to the pages. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 263 pages; 20 cm. Subjects: College teachers Fiction. Kepesh, David (Fictitious character); Fiction. London (England) Fiction. New York (N.Y.) Fiction. Genre: Erotic Fiction. 1 Kg.

Seller Inventory # 319223

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The professor of desire / Philip Roth
• Publisher: New York: Penguin Books
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140076778
• ISBN 13: 9780140076776
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Weight: 1 kilogram

About this title

Synopsis

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 supremely intelligent, affecting, and often hilarious 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.

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.