false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1206385987m/29743.jpg 29743 20 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 ménage à 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. 1347384 book 1977 The Professor of Desire total:371|5:56|4:143|3:129|2:35|1:8| 371 1317 511 35 5 1 false false Mon Oct 29 17:33:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 29 17:33:55 -0700 2007 2 0 false false Sat Nov 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 17:28:21 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 28 09:19:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Jul 16 13:14:28 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 09 07:30:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Sep 21 09:41:16 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 18 15:54:28 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 21 09:41:16 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Sep 14 14:35:56 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 14:36:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 07 12:16:59 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 12:16:59 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Nov 30 13:34:58 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 13:46:05 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Fri Jun 27 14:08:27 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 11:32:57 -0700 2008
This book is somewhere between grim and funny, raw and polished, youthful and mature. The end is a strange, depressive copout, or it feels that way because one finds it di...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 20 01:33:38 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 20 02:24:31 -0700 2007 There is a warmth in Roth I don't detect in any other Post-World War Two writer. He writes about sex, of course, and that in itself makes his writing hot, but there is a grounding effect in hi...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 03 11:23:24 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 11:24:15 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Wed Mar 11 01:15:45 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 01:16:25 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Nov 01 17:10:04 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 17:10:58 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 08:56:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 08:56:44 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 06:35:51 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 06:36:50 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed May 13 14:06:01 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 14:06:10 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 12:30:01 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 16:07:15 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 09:27:18 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 09:35:59 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 30 19:05:12 -0700 2008 Fri May 30 19:08:13 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 07 18:00:17 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 03 19:16:19 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 true false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1998 Mon Jun 25 09:17:29 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 09 17:30:14 -0700 2007
im rereading it because i just reread the dying animal and this book is about the same character, david kepesh.

if anyone knows what "kepesh" means, i...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=29743