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The Professor of Desire

By (author) Philip Roth

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""Ranks among the major achievements in the literature of our time."" --Village Voice ""A thoughtful ... elegant novel.... A fine display of literary skills."" --New York Times Book Review 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. ​​​​​​​ 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.

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Normally shipped | Forthcoming
Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Published date | 15 Dec 2026
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 256
Dimensions | 203 x 135 x 15mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 454g
ISBN | 978-0-0634-9989-8
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Expected | 15 Dec 2026

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