The Human Stain

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The Humán Stain pulses with the strengths that niake Roth a prime contender tor the status of the most impressive novelist now writing in and about America' Sunday Times 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 ageing classics professor, Coteman 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 Síik 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 outto reconstructthe 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 unravelled. And to understand alsó how Silk's astonishing priváté... Tovább

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The Humán Stain pulses with the strengths that niake Roth a prime contender tor the status of the most impressive novelist now writing in and about America' Sunday Times 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 ageing classics professor, Coteman 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 Síik 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 outto reconstructthe 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 unravelled. And to understand alsó how Silk's astonishing priváté history is, in the words of the Wall Street Journal, 'magnificently' interwoven with 'the larger public history of modern America' The Humán Stain is a növel so furious in its teliing, with a plot so intricate in its construction that it is infused with a kind of díabolic joy. A masterpiece' Mail on Sunday One of his very best... There are passages of such sustained brilliance here that I found myself going over them again and again in gaping disbelief. An extraordinary book - bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand' Sunday Telegraph Vissza