The human stain
by Philip Roth
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Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeply into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when Coleman's affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley is exposed. But amid the controversy, Silk must struggle to keep his greatest secret, a secret he's held for the majority of his life, from becoming made public.
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award:pen_faulkner_award=fiction, Passing (Identity), PEN/Faulkner Award Winner, award:pen_faulkner_award=2001, Fiction, Jewish men, College teachers, African American men, Large type books, Fiction, psychological, African americans, fiction, Jews, fiction, College teachers, fiction, New jersey, fiction, American literature, Racisme, Verenigde Staten, 1991-2000, Romans en novellen ; vertaald, Romans, nouvelles, Noirs américainsPlaces
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In 1990's America, the Human Stain is the story told by Nathan Zuckerman, a writer who lives a secluded life until the aging classics professor Coleman Silk becomes his new neighbor.
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