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Original Title:	The Human Stain
ISBN:	0099282194 (ISBN13: 9780099282198)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The American Trilogy #3, Complete Nathan Zuckerman #8
Characters:	Coleman Silk, Nathan Zuckerman, Faunia Farley
Literary Awards:	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2001), WH Smith Literary Award (2001), Prix Médicis Etranger (2002), Koret Jewish Book Award for Fiction (2001), IMPAC Award Nominee (2002)

The Human Stain (The American Trilogy #3)

Philip Roth

Paperback | Pages: 361 pages

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Title	:	The Human Stain (The American Trilogy #3)
Author	:	Philip Roth
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 361 pages
Published	:	April 5th 2001 by Vintage (first published May 2000)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. Literature. American

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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 that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real 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 stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled. And to understand also how Silk's astonishing private history is, in the words of the Wall Street Journal, "magnificently" interwoven with "the larger public history of modern America."

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Brilliant.America in 1998. Monica Lewinsky Bill Clinton sex scandal. Organic farming movement. Political correctness. Race. An ex professor, his lover, a war vet, his children. A secret.This is the bookend to the America trilogy, American Pastoral (1970s) and I Married a Communist (1950s). This series paints his reflections on America over the last half century. Gritty, turbulent and disturbing. The stories, like every Roth story, are raw and challenging. His language, genius. His candor,

Set in New England, this book tells the story of a college professor accused of making a racist remark in one of his classes. The fact that what follows is patently unfair sets this book up as a commentary on extreme political correctness. There is a lot of ground covered here - Vietnam, Clinton/Lewinsky, racism and ageing to name a few - and in typical Roth style it is rich, clever, complex and, at times, ranting. Not what I'd call a relaxing read but hugely worthwhile if you're in the mood.

See, I was an enormous fan of the Tony Hopkins/ Nicky Kidman film already. But incredibly, that adapatation was just the tip of an iceburg so rich, complex & incredible that is Philip Roth's masterpiece "The Human Stain." The film fails oh-so miserably to fulfill at least 40% of the emotional clout (which is significant and HEAVVVY) famously attributed to this, a gargantuan beauty of a book.It seems that this late in the year, the magic wand waved by Literature is (constantly and repeatedly)

The author sums it up perfectly on page 81"You area a verbal master of extroadinary loquatiousness[P. Roth]. So Perspicatios. So fluent. A vocal master of the endless, ostentatious overelaborate sentence."Yup. This book is the Jackson Pollock of our literary time. Just spatter everything all over the page and call it art. Roth goes on and on by using every single adjective he ever learned in his SAT class, in a row, then completely counters every argument he just made, so he can use all the

Mr. Roth,Your banal prose and elementary gimmicks do nothing to endear yourself to me, sir. If, in the future, a thought flies into your head and you would like to put it down on paper, I would first suggest that you hide or burn every John Updike novel you've been petting to sleep each night, get yourself a fistful of fresh adjectives, and wipe your nose. Far too much of you gets onto the page, sir, and none of it is to your credit.Many people are impressed because you wrote American Pastoral.

The only Roth I'd ever read was Portnoy, back when it came out (practically), and the Plot Against America - which didn't impress me at all. So I came to this book, which I listened to on audible, with a prejudice against Roth. I didn't like him, thought he was a fake, he didn't "look" like much of a writer to me, etc. etc. I probably wouldn't have gotten very far if I had been reading -- listening being a very different experience. (I do so much driving, that I listen to these things in

All hed ever wanted, from earliest childhood on, as to be free: not black, not even white--just on his own and free. He meant no insult to no one by his choice, nor was he trying to irritate anyone whom he took to be his superior, nor was he staging some sort of protest against his race or hers. He recognized that to conventional people for whom everything was ready-made and rigidly unalterable what he was doing would never look correct. But to dare to be nothing more than correct had never been