{"product_id":"the-professor-of-desire","title":"The Professor of Desire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Ranks among the major achievements in the literature of our time.\" --\u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A thoughtful ... elegant novel.... A fine display of literary skills.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilip 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.\u003cbr\u003e​​​​​​​\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books Classics","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":67935297667440,"sku":"9780063499898","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0954\/1304\/3568\/files\/imageloader_bc37bcdc-585c-40ee-9602-0232ee5e33df.jpg?v=1792891870","url":"https:\/\/aveson.store\/products\/the-professor-of-desire","provider":"Aveson","version":"1.0","type":"link"}