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The Human Stain is set in 1998 in the United States, during the period of President Bill Clinton's impeachment hearings and scandal over Monica Lewinsky. It is the third of Roth's postwar novels that take on large social themes.
- Philip Roth
- 2000
May 10, 2000 · The Human Stain is a wonderfully complex novel focusing of examination of race and identity, with some politics and human relationships thrown in the mix. The writing is chaotic, angry and bitter, but it's also brilliant.
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- 2000
- Philip Roth
- Paperback
May 8, 2001 · 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.
- Vintage
- $8.99
Aug 1, 2019 · The Human Stain Paperback – August 1, 2019. by Philip Roth (Author) 4.4 2,328 ratings. Book 3 of 3: American Trilogy. See all formats and editions. 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.
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- $15.31
- Philip Roth
- Philip Roth
About The Human Stain. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral delivers “a master novelist’s haunting parable about our troubled modern moment” (The Wall Street Journal).
- Paperback
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.
- Philip Roth
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May 8, 2001 · The Human Stain is the pinnacle of Roth's evolution and the last in his trilogy of novels about postwar America. In lush, Jamesian prose, it recounts the story of a man who is nearly brought down by his country's righteous puritanism.
