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The human stain

Roth, Philip2001
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In an insightful new novel by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author of I Married a Communist, a college professor with a sexual indiscretion in his past is hounded from his job by academic enemies who label him a racist.It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president. It is also the last year of professor Coleman Silk's life, whose own tragic exposure is played out against the background of the Clinton revelations.
Main title:
The human stain / Philip Roth.
Author:
Roth, Philip
Work:
The Human Stain
Edition:
1st Vintage International ed.
Imprint:
New York : Vintage International, 2001.
Collation:
361 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in Great Britain: London : Jonathan Cape, 2000.
ISBN:
978037572634703757263499780099282198
Dewey class:
813.54813.54
LC class:
PS3568.O855
Language:
English
Related title:
The Human Stain [electronic resource]
Subject:
Passing (Identity) -- FictionAfrican American men -- FictionCollege teachers -- FictionJewish men -- FictionSecrecy -- FictionNewark (N.J.) -- FictionNew England -- Intellectual life -- FictionUnited States -- Social conditions -- 1980- -- FictionPsychological fictionPsychological fiction
BRN:
9412
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