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Title	:	The Human Stain (The American Trilogy #3)
Author	:	Philip Roth
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 361 pages
Published	:	April 5th 2001 by Vintage (first published May 2000)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. Literature. American

The Human Stain (The American Trilogy #3) Paperback | Pages: 361 pages

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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 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 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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Original Title:	The Human Stain
ISBN:	0099282194 (ISBN13: 9780099282198)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The American Trilogy #3, Complete Nathan Zuckerman #8
Characters:	Coleman Silk, Nathan Zuckerman, Faunia Farley
Literary Awards:	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2001), WH Smith Literary Award (2001), Prix Médicis Etranger (2002), Koret Jewish Book Award for Fiction (2001), IMPAC Award Nominee (2002)

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The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop. Philip Roth, The Human StainReading Roth is almost a spooky, sexual experience. I say that knowing this will sound absurd, trite and probably hyperbolic. But with Roth, his words are imbued with an almost carnal power, a spectral courage, energy and life. IT is like watching an absurdly talented musician do things with an instrument/with sound that bends the

I read Roths Goodbye, Columbus and Portnoys Complaint in college, and loved them. They were funny, especially in depicting the lusts and lives of young men, with literary flair. But I didnt read him again for no particular reason until relatively recently. Maybe it was something to do with my feeling tired of reading the same Roth main character, book after book, an aggressive male consumed by lust. But then I happened to read the non-fiction Patrimony, about his relationship with his father,

All hed ever wanted, from earliest childhood on, as to be free: not black, not even white--just on his own and free. He meant no insult to no one by his choice, nor was he trying to irritate anyone whom he took to be his superior, nor was he staging some sort of protest against his race or hers. He recognized that to conventional people for whom everything was ready-made and rigidly unalterable what he was doing would never look correct. But to dare to be nothing more than correct had never been

See, I was an enormous fan of the Tony Hopkins/ Nicky Kidman film already. But incredibly, that adapatation was just the tip of an iceburg so rich, complex & incredible that is Philip Roth's masterpiece "The Human Stain." The film fails oh-so miserably to fulfill at least 40% of the emotional clout (which is significant and HEAVVVY) famously attributed to this, a gargantuan beauty of a book.It seems that this late in the year, the magic wand waved by Literature is (constantly and repeatedly)

The author sums it up perfectly on page 81"You area a verbal master of extroadinary loquatiousness[P. Roth]. So Perspicatios. So fluent. A vocal master of the endless, ostentatious overelaborate sentence."Yup. This book is the Jackson Pollock of our literary time. Just spatter everything all over the page and call it art. Roth goes on and on by using every single adjective he ever learned in his SAT class, in a row, then completely counters every argument he just made, so he can use all the

Here's what I know: if a book features some old dude fucking some younger lady, check the author's age. 100% of the time, he's the same age as the old dude.The younger woman will be vulnerable. She will be attracted to the older man's security and wisdom. There is a power imbalance, and it's basically the same thing as when Tarzan saves Jane from the lion. It's embarrassing, immature wish-fulfillment. And even when it's written very well, it's boring. This book is occasionally written very well,

oh, phillip roth! you CARD. you IMP. no one makes me laugh like you. around this time last year i was on vacation on the cape reading american pastoral, another roth novella of fun and good humor! (read brinda's perfect description for an idea of that one.) i ended up forgetting the book there, with about forty pages left to read, and i never bought a new copy. i didn't care that i hadn't finished it because I WAS SO EXHAUSTED. the book wasn't bad. the book was great. but reading a roth opus is