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The Human Stain

The Human Stain

Roth, Philip

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Series: Vintage International

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

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ISBN10: 0375726349
ISBN13: 9780375726347
Publisher: Vintage
Published: May 8 2001
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.24 Depth: 8.06
Language: English
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).

One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

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.

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