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Description for Human Stain
paperback. 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. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 310. Good clean copy, lightly toned, text is clear and remains a very good copy
'An extraordinary book - bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand'- Sunday Telegraph
Philip Roth's brilliant conclusion to his eloquent trilogy of post-war America - a magnificent successor to American Pastoral and I Married a Communist
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, the persecution needless, but the truth about Silk ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099282198
SKU
KSG0032156
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Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Human Stain
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more