Name: Irene Lydia Bintou's review of The Professor of Desire by Philip Roth
Item: The Professor of Desire
Rating: 3
Author: Irene Lydia Bintou

Philip Roth

As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself 'a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes'. Little does he realise how prophetic this motto will be - or how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domesticity of his childhood into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a menage troisin 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.

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The Professor of Desire by Philip Roth

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