Philip Roth's brilliant conclusion to his eloquent trilogy of post-war America - a magnificent successor to American Pastoral and I Married a Communist.
It is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of
prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England
town a distinguished classics 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,
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 comes upon Silk's secret, and
sets out to unearth his former buried life, piecing the biographical
fragments back together. This is against backdrop of seismic shifts in
American history, which take on real, human urgency as Zuckerman
discovers more and more about Silk's past and his futile search for
renewal and regeneration.
The Human Stain - Philip Roth
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