{"product_id":"the-professor-of-desire-isbn-9780679749004","title":"The Professor of Desire","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e—\"a thoughtful...elegant\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) and often hilarous 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 novel that \"ranks among the major achievements in the literature of our time\" (\u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e). | \"Ranks among the major achievements in the literature of our time.\"\u003cb\u003e —\u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"No one writing can juggle the somber and the ludicrous more adroitly than Roth.\"   \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"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.\"\u003cb\u003e —Milan Kundera\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A thoughtful ... elegant   novel.... A fine display of literary skills.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e | PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAcademy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHe twice won the National Book Award and the National\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBook Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN\/Faulkner\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAward three times. In 2005 \u003ci\u003eThe Plot Against America \u003c\/i\u003ereceived\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ehistorical novel on an American theme for 2003–2004.”\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eRoth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ein 2006 the PEN\/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN\/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eMedal at the White House, and was later named the fourth\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003erecipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304977551589,"sku":"NP9780679749004","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679749004.jpg?v=1767741091","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-professor-of-desire-isbn-9780679749004","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}