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The Professor of Desire
by: Philip Roth

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780099389019
ISBN: 0099389010
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: January 03, 1998
Publisher: Vintage
Studio: Vintage
Sales Rank: 144038

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- Roth's take on relationships in the modern world
Written in 1977, this is the second book by Philip Roth featuring David Kepesh, here a young man who is starting his career as a literature professor. As he pursues different women in different continents, the question always in his mind is if he should settle for marriage and love or for sex without commitment. A side trip to Prague is not only a homage to Kafka but one of the best passages of the book. By the next installment of Kepesh in the Dying Animal, written almost a quarter century later, he is a man in his sixties, who has chosen to live without a commitment and therefore now feels lonely and vulnerable to young women. Roth's stream of consciousness style is sometimes infuriating but often illuminating about the conflict between love ... Read More:

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- Deep and true
I have read most of Philip Roth's books and I come to each one with a feeling of dread that this time, maybe he won't live up to my ever climbing expectations. This book is however, as ever, truly exceptional. Deceptively simple, a story of one man and his relationships it manages to ring true and bring a depth to the characters, events and thoughts it raises that few other recent books I have read can match. Well no other philip roth books actually. Read it and enjoy.

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