description: 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 a trios in London to the throes of loneliness in New York, he creates a supremely intelligent, affecting, and often hilarious novel about the dilemma of where we seek it; why we flee it; and how we struggle to make a truce between dignity and desire.
language: English
title: The Professor of Desire
titlecomplete: The Professor of Desire
characters: David Kepesh
genres: Classics, Fiction, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Sexuality, American, Americana
ratings_count: 3640
awards: awardedAt: 220953600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Random House Value Publishing