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The Professor of Desire
- Author
- Philip Roth
- Narrator
- David Colacci
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 7 May 2024
- Run Time
- 8 hours 45 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author comes thoughtful 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.
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 novel that “ranks among the major achievements in the literature of our time” (Village Voice).
Critics Review
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“[A] thoughtful, stylistically elegant novel about the paradox of male desire.”
New York Times Book Review
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“An entertaining, mature exploration of the conflicts of passion and reason.”
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Details
- Author
- Philip Roth
- Narrator
- David Colacci
- Duration
- 8 hours 45 minutes
- Release Date
- 7 May 2024
- ISBN
- 9798212383523
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author comes thoughtful 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.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 novel that “ranks among the major achievements in the literature of our time” (Village Voice).
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