The Human Stain

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'A must OBSERVER 'Read it now' thetmes 'The Humán Stain pulses with the strengths that make Roth a prime contender for the status of the most impressive novelist now writing in and about America' SUNDAY TIMES Colcman Silk has a secret. But it's not the sccret of his affair, at seventy-one, with a woman half his age. And it's not the secret of his allegcd racism, which provoked the college witchhünt that cost him his job. Coleman's secret is deeper, and lies.at the very core of who he is, and he has kept it hidden from evcryone for fifty years. Set in 1998, with the backdrop of the imp.eachment of a president, The Humán Stain shows us an America where coiíflicting moralities and idéological divisions result in public denunciations and houndings, and where innocence is not always a sood O J o enough excuse. 'A növel with an almost Victorian rangé of scope and characters, all powered by one vast secret and a frenetic and exciting plot...The Humán Stain is a növel so furious in its... Tovább

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'A must OBSERVER 'Read it now' thetmes 'The Humán Stain pulses with the strengths that make Roth a prime contender for the status of the most impressive novelist now writing in and about America' SUNDAY TIMES Colcman Silk has a secret. But it's not the sccret of his affair, at seventy-one, with a woman half his age. And it's not the secret of his allegcd racism, which provoked the college witchhünt that cost him his job. Coleman's secret is deeper, and lies.at the very core of who he is, and he has kept it hidden from evcryone for fifty years. Set in 1998, with the backdrop of the imp.eachment of a president, The Humán Stain shows us an America where coiíflicting moralities and idéological divisions result in public denunciations and houndings, and where innocence is not always a sood O J o enough excuse. 'A növel with an almost Victorian rangé of scope and characters, all powered by one vast secret and a frenetic and exciting plot...The Humán Stain is a növel so furious in its teliing, with a plot so intricate in its construction that it is infused with a kind of diabolic joy. A masterpiece' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'One of his very best...There are passages of such sustained brilliance here thatl found myself going over them again and again in gaping disbelief. The Humán Stain is an extraordinary book - bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand.The work of a genius at full throttle' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Unnerving, hilarious and sad' NEW YORK TIMES 'Astonishing...very beautiful' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW r \ Vissza