{"product_id":"2940172695322","title":"The Professor of Desire","description":"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 a 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.\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.\" -Milan Kundera\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A thoughtful . . . elegant novel. . . . A fine display of literary skills.\"  -The New York Times Book Review","brand":"Brilliance Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47106202468592,"sku":"2940172695322","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940172695322_p0.jpg?v=1763845132","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940172695322","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}