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"Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered."
- W. H. Auden
(1907 - 1973)
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ZIN Product Number: 11233147
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Econo-Clad Books
ISBN: 0613457757
Release Date: Jan 10, 1998
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 3 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
Set during the sanctimonious culture wars of the 1990s, The Human Stain concludes Philip Roth's eloquent trilogy (American Pastoral, I Married a Communist) of postwar America with the story of an eminent, respected college professor whose life, career, and very identity unravel in the wake of a politically correct academic bushwhacking.
| | | | From The Publisher
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 have astonished 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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Who Edited This??!!
-- A disappointed reviewer, a 29-year old psychologist, September 15, 2000
Also Recommended: The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky. Walk in the Light & Twenty-three Tales - Tolstoy. A Walk to Remember - Nicholas Sparks. The City of Joy - LaPierre.
Bad writing, thematically incoherent
-- A reviewer, September 30, 2002
HOW LONG IS THAT SENTENCE ANYWAY?
-- SONNIE, June 4, 2001
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
The last episode in a trilogy about postwar America, The Human Stain tells the story of Coleman Silk, a classics professor with a terrible secret. Nearly fifty years ago he completely reinvented his identity, and now, after all this time, his lies are about to unravel.|
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College teachers, Jewish men, Passing (Identity), Newark (N J ), African American men, Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9), Fiction - General, Fiction, Literary, General, Juvenile Fiction
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