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The Human Stain
Paperback
Classic FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9780063499317
Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
Published: May 26 2026
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.73
Height: 1.09 Width: 5.24 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
A master novelist's haunting parable about our troubled modern moment. --The Wall Street Journal
By turns unnerving, hilarious, and sad. . . . It is a book that shows how the public zeitgeist can shape, even destroy, an individual's life. --The New York Times
The best novel he has written. --The Times Literary Supplement
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.
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