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The Human Stain

The American psyche is channelled into the gripping story of one man. This is the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth at his very best.

It is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president. In a small New England town a distinguished professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues allege that he is a racist. The charge is unfounded, the persecution needless, but the truth about Silk would astonish even his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret that he has kept for fifty years. This is the conclusion to Roth’s brilliant trilogy of post-war America — a story of seismic shifts in American history and a personal search for renewal and regeneration.

'An extraordinary book — bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand' Sunday Telegraph

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 384
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781784875565
  • Release date
  • 2019