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The Human Stain

by Philip Roth
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The Human Stain
The Human Stain

Intrigue, secrets, and societal prejudices unraveled.

This book is a riveting exploration of identity, prejudice, and the consequences of one man's hidden past. Through Philip Roth's masterful storytelling, readers are taken on a journey that exposes the complexities of human nature and the power of societal judgment. The Human Stain is a thought-provoking and poignant read that will captivate those who appreciate introspective and relevant narratives that challenge societal norms.

  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2001)
  • WH Smith Literary Award (2001)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Fiction (2000)
  • Prix Médicis étranger (2002)
  • Koret Jewish Book Award for Fiction (2001)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2002)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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by Philip Roth
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ISBN: 9780099282198
Authors: Philip Roth
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 2016-04-05
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Mystery/Crime/Thriller, Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Literature, Race, Suspense, Classics, Literary Criticism, Mystery
Goodreads rating: 3.92
(rated by 45471 readers)

Description

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 astonish 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."
 

Intrigue, secrets, and societal prejudices unraveled.

This book is a riveting exploration of identity, prejudice, and the consequences of one man's hidden past. Through Philip Roth's masterful storytelling, readers are taken on a journey that exposes the complexities of human nature and the power of societal judgment. The Human Stain is a thought-provoking and poignant read that will captivate those who appreciate introspective and relevant narratives that challenge societal norms.

  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2001)
  • WH Smith Literary Award (2001)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Fiction (2000)
  • Prix Médicis étranger (2002)
  • Koret Jewish Book Award for Fiction (2001)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2002)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.