by Philip Roth · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099422136
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«The Human Stain» is the novel by American writer Philip Roth, published by Vintage in paperback (384 pages, in English).
Set in 1998, with the impeachment of a president as a backdrop, the story follows Coleman Silk, a university professor whose life falls apart when he is accused of racism. The scandal triggers a chain of events that reveal secrets from his past and the moral, ideological, and racial divisions of American society.
Third installment of Philip Roth's American Trilogy, this novel was awarded the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Prix Médicis étranger.
A novel for readers of literary fiction interested in the social and racial tensions of contemporary United States.
Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller Portnoy's Complaint. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history The Plot Against America.
