The Professor of Desire Author:Philip Roth An entertaining, mature exploration of the conflicts of passion and reason. The plot follows protagonist David Kepesh, who moves between a life of scholarship and carnal adventure. — "Ranks among the major achievements in the literature of our time." --Village Voice — "No one writing can juggle the somber and the ludicrous more adroitly than Roth.... more »" --Time
"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« less