A review by andrewspink
The Professor of Desire by Philip Roth

3.0

In the months before his recent death, I kept reading about Philp Roth, with even Salman Rushdie describing him as his literary hero. So I felt I really ought to read something by him and chose a book at random, by which I mean price. This was maybe a mistake. The Professor of Desire is indeed well written, but the subject is a little odd; closer to the title that I had bargained for. That meant that I struggled through the first half and only began to enjoy it towards the end. Nevertheless, there was enough about it that I got the idea that I ought to try one of his more well-known books.