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 to make a truce between dignity and desire; and how to survive the ordeal of an unhallowed existence.
ISBN: | 9780099389019 |
Publication date: | 5th October 1995 |
Author: | Philip Roth |
Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 263 pages |
Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |