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Human Stain
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Anne R from Maryland
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This was the first Philip Roth book I've read in decades, and I was fascinated and rather awed by how his powers as a novelist have grown. The Human Stain is a much bigger, more ambitious book than Portnoy's Complaint or Goodbye Columbus. Although it's the story of one man, Colman Silk, a New England college professor whose career comes to a humiliating end, it's also about the state of the nation at the close of the 20th century. The characters--Silk's family, his colleagues, his girlfriend, the girlfriend's Vietnam vet ex-husband--all ring true, although some sexism mars his portrayal of Silk's faculty nemesis. I kept reading to find out what happened to everyone as well as to see where Roth was going with his analysis of contemporary America. Now I want to read the first two books in his American Pastoral trilogy.
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Interesting book, good content, however I found it overall not as captivating as was promised by other reviewers.
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Fantastic.
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Michael Rosenberger
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best book of the naughties
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David Gottfried
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Like Updike's Rabbit, Philip Roth's Nathan Zukerman has become more compelling with age. The story of The Human Stain, and its central character Coleman Silk, is told by Zukerman. Aside from the politicization of Silk, Roth returns to the theme of aging and sexuality, a theme that would continue to be central to his later books. Whether Zukerman, or David Kapesh for that matter, is Roth's alter-ego is probably irrelevant. What is important about Roth's recent work is it's candid and life-affirming depiction of what's too easily described as the twilight years.
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Product Details
ISBN:
9780375726347
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
05/08/2001
Publisher:
BALLANTINE BOOKS
Series info:
Vintage International
Pages:
384
Height:
.80IN
Width:
5.24IN
Thickness:
.75
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
2000
Series Volume:
104-4.
UPC Code:
2800375726349
Author:
Philip Roth
Author:
Philip Roth
Subject:
Jewish men
Subject:
Psychological fiction
Subject:
College teachers
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Passing
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Literature-A to Z
Subject:
Newark
Subject:
African American men
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