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The Human Stain

By: Philip Roth
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
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Brought to you by Penguin.

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.

©2000 Philip Roth (P)2024 Penguin Audio
Genre Fiction Jewish Literary Fiction Psychological World Literature American History Social justice

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Critic reviews

'An extraordinary book - bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand.' Sunday Telegraph

'[A] tender, shocking and incendiary story on the failure of the American dream refracted through the prism of race.' Arifa Akbar

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