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The Human Stain is a novel by Philip Roth, published May 5, 2000. The book is set in Western Massachusetts in the late 1990s. Its narrator is 65-year-old author Nathan Zuckerman , who appears in several earlier Roth novels, including two books that form a loose trilogy with The Human Stain, American Pastoral (1997) and I Married a Communist (1998). [1]
- Philip Roth
- 2000
About The Human Stain. 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).
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May 10, 2000 · Author 3 books 5,886 followers. February 9, 2017. A masterfully architected tale about race, shame, violence, and remembrance, The Human Stain is definitely one of Roth's masterpieces. From its first pages, the reader is drawn into the mystery of Coleman "Silky" Silk né Silkzweig and his tragic downfall.
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- 2000
- Philip Roth
- Paperback
May 8, 2001 · His novel, "The Human Stain" is both entertaining and thought-provoking. It is a worthy addition to American fiction of the early 21st century. The title of the book sets forth its primary theme. A major part of human life is tied to human sexuality and to physicality. People ignore or downplay this aspect at their peril.
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- Philip Roth
- Vintage
May 10, 2000 · The Human Stain: A Novel. The Human Stain. : Philip Roth. HarperCollins, May 10, 2000 - Fiction - 376 pages. 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 ...
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- Philip Roth
- HarperCollins, 2000
May 10, 2000 · THE HUMAN STAIN is a personal character-driven story that could've happened any time, any place. The allusions to the human stain that betrayed Clinton seem like a fortuitous ploy to promote Roth's new book. Both novels, however, probe deeply into the contemporary American psyche.
- Philip Roth
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