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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.

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Philip Roth is a great historian of modern eroticism * Milan Kundera *
A thoughtful, even gentle, stylistically elegant novel about the paradox of male desire, that lacerating passion which may lead to happiness but cannot survive it * New York Times Book Review *
He writes so well. His prose is both elegant and furious. It can be witty, tender and brutal in a single paragraph -- Melvyn Bragg
No one writing can juggle the somber and the ludicrous more adroitly than Roth * The Time *
A profound and commanding book... There is great beauty in it, humanity and tenderness * Sunday Telegraph *

The Professor of Desire

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    Publisher: Vintage Publishing
    Publication Date: 05/10/1995
    ISBN13: 9780099389019, 978-0099389019
    ISBN10: 0099389010
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    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.

    Trade Review
    Philip Roth is a great historian of modern eroticism * Milan Kundera *
    A thoughtful, even gentle, stylistically elegant novel about the paradox of male desire, that lacerating passion which may lead to happiness but cannot survive it * New York Times Book Review *
    He writes so well. His prose is both elegant and furious. It can be witty, tender and brutal in a single paragraph -- Melvyn Bragg
    No one writing can juggle the somber and the ludicrous more adroitly than Roth * The Time *
    A profound and commanding book... There is great beauty in it, humanity and tenderness * Sunday Telegraph *

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