内容简介
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 me nage 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.
作者简介
In the 1990s Philip Roth won America's four major literary
awards in succession: the National Book Critics Circle Award for
Patrimony (1991), the PEN/Faulkner Award for Operation Shylock
(1993), the National Book Award for Sabbath's Theater (1995), and
the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for American Pastoral (1997). He won
the Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union for I
Married a Communist (1998); in the same year he received the
National Medal of Arts at the White House. Previously he won the
National Book Critics Circle Award for The Counterlife (1986) and
the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus
(1959). In 2000 he published The Human Stain, concluding a trilogy
that depicts the ideological ethos of postwar America. For The
Human Stain Roth received his second PEN/Faulkner Award as well as
Britain's W. H. Smith Award for the Best Book of the Year. In 2001
he received the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, the Gold Medal in fiction, given every six years 'for the
entire work of the recipient'.