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Book Review of The Human Stain

The Human Stain
The Human Stain
Author: Philip Roth
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback


A prestigious professor is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is lie, but the real truth about Professor Silk would astonish his most virulent accuser. For he has a secret, one which he has kept for 50 years from his wife, his four children, his colleagues and his friends. Winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award . Pulitzer prize-winning author of American Pastoral.