The Human Stain

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FICTION/LITERATURE "By turns unnerving, hilarious, and sad. ... It is a book that shows how the public zeitgeist can shape, even destroy, an individual's life. . . . Not only a philosophic bookend to American Pastoral but a large and stirring book as well." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York 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 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 his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret, one which has been kept for íifty years from his vvife, his four children, his colleagues, and his fríends, including the writer Nathan Zuckerman. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of the eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life,... Tovább

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FICTION/LITERATURE "By turns unnerving, hilarious, and sad. ... It is a book that shows how the public zeitgeist can shape, even destroy, an individual's life. . . . Not only a philosophic bookend to American Pastoral but a large and stirring book as well." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York 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 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 his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret, one which has been kept for íifty years from his vvife, his four children, his colleagues, and his fríends, including the writer Nathan Zuckerman. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of the eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, ancl to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled. 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." "In American literature today, there's Philip Roth, and then there's everybody else." -chicago tribüné "Philip Roth's The Humán Stain is the best növel he has written-not to devalue the past. Here, everything the writer has learnt and experienced within the indefinable form we call the növel, the impact of society on himself and the people around him, world contemporary móres, beliefs, prejudices, have come to full realization." -Nadine Gordimer, The Times LlTERARY supplement (International Book of the Year Selection) Vissza