The Human Stain

by Philip Roth · first published 2000

The Human Stain is a novel by Philip Roth, published May 5, 2000. The book is set in Western Massachusetts in the late 1990s. Its narrator is 65-year-old author Nathan Zuckerman, who appears in several earlier Roth novels, including two books that form a trilogy with The Human Stain, American Pastoral (1997) and I Married a Communist (1998). Zuckerman acts largely as an observer as the complex story of the protagonist, Coleman Silk, a retired professor of classics, is slowly revealed.

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Genre:

Psychological fiction

Original language:

English

Reader rating:

★ 4.3 / 5 (4 on Open Library)

Year page:

2000