# 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_classics
- ISBN: 978-17-8487-556-5
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2019-08-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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