The Professor of Desire Author: Philip Roth
	Book Information Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Book Type: Hardcover Rating: ? ISBN-13: 122178 - ISBN-10: Publication Date: 1977 Pages: 181

Philip Roth's new book is the story of an adventurous man of intelligence and feeling trying to make his way to both pleasure and dignity through a world of sensual possibilities. Temptation comes to him in both ordinary and spectacular forms, and the novel charts the history of his desire from the early years, when he accedes to it totally, to the time when he attempts to domesticate his passions (and his wife's) and finally to that most surprising moment when desire ebbs and, frighteningly, seems on the brink of disappearance. The book explores, in all its painful ramifications, the pursuit and loss of erotic happiness.