The Human Stain by Philip Roth Paperback Book

Description: The Human Stain by Philip Roth 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, but the truth about Silk would astonish even his most virulent accuser. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Reissued in electric new backlist style, The Human Stain is one of Philip Roths bestselling novels and winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionAn extraordinary book - bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand- Sunday TelegraphPhilip Roths brilliant conclusion to his eloquent trilogy of post-war America - a magnificent successor to American Pastoral and I Married a CommunistIt 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 Silks 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 Silks past and his futile search for renewal and regeneration.________________PRAISE FOR THE HUMAN STAIN-One of the most beautiful books Ive ever read Red A tender, shocking and incendiary story on the failure of the American dream refracted through the prism of race GuardianA masterpiece Mail on Sunday Notes The third and final part of the trilogy which began with American Pastoral and continued with I Married A Communist. A story of conflicting moralities, ideological divisions, and public denunciation which is a fictional microcosm of American politics and society in the second half of the twentieth century. Author Biography Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933. The second child of second-generation Americans, Bess and Herman Roth, Roth grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood he was to return to time and again in his writing. After graduating from Weequahic High School in 1950, he attended Bucknell University, Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago, where he received a scholarship to complete his M.A. in English Literature.In 1959, Roth published Goodbye, Columbus - a collection of stories, and a novella - for which he received the National Book Award. Ten years later, the publication of his fourth novel, Portnoys Complaint, brought Roth both critical and commercial success, firmly securing his reputation as one of Americas finest young writers. Roth was the author of thirty-one books, including those that were to follow the fortunes of Nathan Zuckerman, and a fictional narrator named Philip Roth, through which he explored and gave voice to the complexities of the American experience in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.Roths lasting contribution to literature was widely recognised throughout his lifetime, both in the US and abroad. Among other commendations he was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the International Man Booker Prize, twice the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award, and presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.Philip Roth died on 22 May 2018 at the age of eighty-five having retired from writing six years previously. Review The Human Stain pulses with the strengths that make Roth a prime contender for the status of the most impressive novelist now writing in and about America * Sunday Times *An extraordinary book - bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand * Sunday Telegraph *One of his very best... There are passages of such sustained brilliance here that I found myself going over them again and again in gaping disbelief. An extraordinary book - bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand * Sunday Telegraph *A novel so furious in its telling, with a plot so intricate in its construction that it is infused with a kind of diabolic joy. A masterpiece * Mail on Sunday *[A] tender, shocking and incendiary story on the failure of the American dream refracted through the prism of race -- Arifa Akbar * Guardian * Promotional The work of a genius at full throttle Sunday Telegraph Kirkus UK Review The theme of this disturbing and gripping novel is the stuff of Greek tragedy - how capricious human fate is, or can seem when that fate is unavoidable. Coleman Silk, a classics professor at a New England university, clears out the dead wood in his department with a hubristic disregard for diplomacy and tact; his nemesis, Professor Delphine Roux, seizes her chance to strike when an ambiguous phrase used by Silk can be interpreted to daub him as a racist; the witch-hunt that follows costs him his job and, he believes, provokes the death of his wife. Silk further defies the gods of political correctness through an affair with an illiterate office cleaner more than half his age. The plot pivots on Silks darkest secret, which cannot be revealed here; suffice to say that a decision made in youth will plant the seed of an old mans destruction. And whom the gods wish to destroy, they first drive mad. Silks story, narrated by Roths fictional hero Nathan Zuckerman, unfolds against the impeachment of President Clinton in 1998 and there is no doubt that Roth sees both the president and the professor as flawed men, as all men are, brought down by malevolent forces. An angry and eloquent indictment of modern America. (Kirkus UK) Prizes Winner of WH Smith Literary Prize 2001 Winner of WH Smith Annual Literary Award 2001 Short-listed for Irish Times Literary Prize,International Fiction 2001 Review Text The Human Stain pulses with the strengths that make Roth a prime contender for the status of the most impressive novelist now writing in and about America Review Quote The Human Stain pulses with the strengths that make Roth a prime contender for the status of the most impressive novelist now writing in and about America Promotional "Headline" Reissued in electric new backlist style, The Human Stain is one of Philip Roths bestselling novels and winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Details ISBN0099282194 Author Philip Roth Pages 384 ISBN-10 0099282194 ISBN-13 9780099282198 Format Paperback Imprint Vintage Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.54 Birth 1933 Media Book Year 2001 Short Title HUMAN STAIN Residence Newark, US Publisher Vintage Publishing Publication Date 2001-04-05 UK Release Date 2001-04-05 AU Release Date 2001-04-05 NZ Release Date 2001-04-05 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education Alternative 9781446400531 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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