Description
Author Philip Roth
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; F First Edition, First Printing (April 1, 2000)
Binding hardcover with dust jacket
Condition like new with some age tanning
Summary
"The Human Stain" by Philip Roth is a powerful novel that delves into issues of identity, race, and the complexities of human relationships. Set in the late 1990s, the story follows the life of Coleman Silk, a professor with a hidden secret that disrupts his life and career, leading to profound consequences.
PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral in 1997. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003–2004.” Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018.