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The Human Stain
- Author
- Philip Roth
- Narrator
- Dennis Boutsikaris
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 14 March 2024
- Run Time
- 13 hours 11 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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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.
'An extraordinary book - bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand' Sunday Telegraph
©2000 Philip Roth (P)2024 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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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
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One of his very best... There are passages of such sustained brilliance here that I found myself going over them again and again in gaping disbelief. An extraordinary book - bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand
Sunday Telegraph
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A novel so furious in its telling, with a plot so intricate in its construction that it is infused with a kind of diabolic joy. A masterpiece
Mail on Sunday
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[A] tender, shocking and incendiary story on the failure of the American dream refracted through the prism of race
Guardian
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One of the most beautiful books I've ever read
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Details
- Author
- Philip Roth
- Narrator
- Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duration
- 13 hours 11 minutes
- Release Date
- 14 March 2024
- ISBN
- 9781529914931
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: identity / belonging, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems
Synopsis
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.'An extraordinary book - bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand' Sunday Telegraph©2000 Philip Roth (P)2024 Penguin Audio
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