Professor of Desire

As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself as ''a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes'' - an identity that will cling to him for a lifetime. As Philip Roth follows Kapesh from the domesticity of childhood out into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a ménage à trois in London to the depths of loneliness in New York, Kapesh confronts the central dilemma of pleasure: how...