The Professor of Desire By Philip Roth Material:Hard Cover Even though I’ll be trapped

Even though I’ll be trapped with the only man I’ve ever loved

and the stakes are high: success brings eternal adoration

Petro takes on the issue of women’s shame directly with an unflinching look at the social systems that encourage women to believe we are deeply inadequate

The only way to save the boy she loves from the wrath of the Scarlets is to have him want her dead for murdering his best friend in cold blood

Something deadly waits in the shadows

The Professor of Desire By Philip Roth Material:Hard Cover Even though I’ll be trappedDavid Kepesh, an adventurous man of intelligence and feeling, tries to make his way to both pleasure and dignity through a world of sensual possibilities. Temptation comes to him in both its ordinary and spectacular forms, and the novel charts the history of his desire from the early years, when he is acceded 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