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Title: The Human Stain

Author: Philip Roth

ISBN: 9780375726347

Publisher: Vintage International

Published: 2001

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Number of Pages: 361

Condition Note: New from the publisher

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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 CenturyIt 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.”