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 menage 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."
- ISBN10 0552111694
- ISBN13 9780552111690
- Publish Date 14 September 1979 (first published 1 October 1977)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 January 1994
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Imprint Corgi Childrens
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English