# The Human Stain

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- Book: [The Human Stain](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-roth/the-human-stain) ([The Human Stain.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-roth/the-human-stain.md))
- Authors: [Philip Roth](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-roth)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 13 h 11 min
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- ISBN: 978-15-2991-493-1
- Published: 2024-03-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 13 h 11 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. 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 ©2000 Philip Roth (P)2024 Penguin Audio