Quote from: Love Topic

These girls with old gents don't do it despite the age—they're drawn to the age, they do it for the age. Why? In Consuela's case, because the vast difference in age gives her permission to submit, I think. My age and my status give her, rationally, the license to surrender, and surrendering in bed is a not unpleasant sensation. But simultaneously, to give yourself over intimately to a much, much older man provides this sort of younger woman with authority of a kind she cannot get in a sexual arrangement with a younger man. She gets both the pleasures of submission and the pleasures of mastery.


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Author Bio


  • NamePhilip Roth
  • DescriptionAmerican novelist
  • AliasesPhilip Milton Roth
  • BornMarch 19, 1933
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; National Medal Of Arts; National Humanities Medal; Franz Kafka Prize; National Book Award; Pulitzer Prize For Fiction; Prince Of Asturia Literary Prize