# The Professor of Desire

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- Authors: [Philip Roth](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-roth)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2016-10-06

## Description

As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself as 'a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes' - an identity that will cling to him for a lifetime. As Philip Roth follows Kapesh from the domesticity of childhood out into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a ménage à trois in London to the depths 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.

## Editions

### The Professor of Desire

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9938-901-9
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2016-10-06
- Language: en_GB