{"product_id":"books-the-professor-of-desire-by-philip-roth","title":"The Professor of Desire","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 menage a trois in London to the throes of loneliness in New York, he creates a supremely intelligent, affecting, 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. Philip Roth is a great historian of modern eroticism. . . .  He] speaks of a sexuality that questions itself; it is still hedonism, but it is problematic, wounded, ironic hedonism. His is the uncommon union of confession and irony. Infinitely vulnerable in his sincerity and infinitely elusive in his irony. --Milan Kundera A thoughtful . . . elegant novel. . . . A fine display of literary skills. --The New York Times Book Review","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53480665547025,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780679749004.jpg?v=1777550655","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-the-professor-of-desire-by-philip-roth","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}