Name: The Human Stain
SKU: 1610514
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Author: Philip Roth
ISBN: 9780375726347

Type

Physical Book

Author

Philip Roth

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2001

Language

English

Pages

384

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.5x13.3x2 cm

Weight

0.29 kg.

ISBN

0375726349

ISBN13

9780375726347

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Human Stain "

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral delivers "a master novelist's haunting parable about our troubled modern moment" (The Wall Street Journal). It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would have astonished even his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret, one which has been kept for fifty years from his wife, his four children, his colleagues, and his friends, including the writer Nathan Zuckerman. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled. And to understand also how Silk's astonishing private history is, in the words of The Wall Street Journal, "magnificently" interwoven with "the larger public history of modern America."

Philip Roth

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Philip Milton Roth was an American writer of Jewish origin, known mainly for his novels, although he also wrote short stories and essays.

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