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May 2, 2000 · THE HUMAN STAIN. By Philip Roth. 361 pages. Houghton Mifflin Company. $26. Philip Roth's Pulitzer-Prize winning 1997 novel, ''American Pastoral'' -- the first installment, it would turn out, of a ...
Chapter One. Everyone Knows. It was in the summer of 1998 that my neighbor Coleman Silk—who, before retiring two years earlier, had been a classics professor at nearby Athena College for some twenty-odd years as well as serving for sixteen more as the dean of faculty—confided to me that, at the age of seventy-one, he was having an affair with a thirty-four-year-old cleaning woman who ...
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May 15, 2000 · Roth is a storyteller who believes in getting quickly to the problem, to a character’s predicament, and, in “The Human Stain,” in a voice unmistakable for its directness and outrage, he ...
May 10, 2000 · Philip Roth's serious indictment of late twentieth-century America, "The Human Stain," is much more than a novel. On one level, Roth examines the devastating impact of a false accusation on an exemplary man's character; in this regard, "Stain" is little less than brilliant.
May 10, 2000 · The Human Stain by Philip Roth 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 ...
May 10, 2000 · Set in 1990s America, where conflicting moralities and ideological divisions are made manifest through public denunciation and rituals of purification, The Human Stain concludes Philip Roth's eloquent trilogy of postwar American lives that are as tragically determined by the nation's fate as by the "human stain" that so ineradicably marks human ...
