The Human Stain: American Trilogy (3) - Vintage International

Jacket Description/Flap: It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would have astonished even his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret, one which has been kept for fifty years from his wife, his four children, his colleagues, and his friends, including the writer Nathan Zuckerman. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled. And to understand also how Silk's astonishing private history is, in the words of "The "Wall Street Journal, "magnificently" interwoven with "the larger public history of modern America."Review Quotes: ?Perhaps the best writing of [Roth?s] long career?. [The Human Stain] is a modern tragedy. "Chicago Sun-Times"Review Quotes: ?Perhaps the best writing of ÝRoth?s¨ long career?. ÝThe Human Stain¨ is a modern tragedy.??"Chicago Sun-Times"Biographical Note: In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for "American Pastoral." 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 has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has 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." Recently 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. Roth is the only living American novelist to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. 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. Publisher Marketing: It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would have astonished even his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret, one which has been kept for fifty years from his wife, his four children, his colleagues, and his friends, including the writer Nathan Zuckerman. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled. And to understand also how Silk's astonishing private history is, in the words of "The""Wall Street Journal," "magnificently" interwoven with "the larger public history of modern America." Review Citations:

New York Times 05/06/2001 pg. 36 (EAN 9780375726347, Paperback)

Entertainment Weekly 12/05/2003 pg. 104 (EAN 9780375726347, Paperback)

Newsweek 10/01/2007 pg. 81 (EAN 9780375726347, Paperback)

Bookpage 05/01/2001 pg. 23 (EAN 9780375726347, Paperback)

Booksense '76 Reading Grp 04 05/01/2004 pg. 1 (EAN 9780375726347, Paperback)

New York Times Book Review 03/16/2014 pg. 15 (EAN 9780375726347, Paperback)

People Weekly 10/27/2003 pg. 49 (EAN 9780786229642, Hardcover)

New York Times 05/07/2000 pg. 7 (EAN 9780618059454, Hardcover)

New York Times 06/04/2000 pg. 42 (EAN 9780618059454, Hardcover)

New York Times 12/03/2000 pg. 11 (EAN 9780618059454, Hardcover)

School Library Journal 03/01/2000 pg. 129 (EAN 9780618059454, Hardcover)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2006 pg. 812 (EAN 9780618059454, Hardcover)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 791 (EAN 9780618059454, Hardcover)

Men's Journal 05/01/2000 pg. 48 (EAN 9780618059454, Hardcover)

People Weekly 05/29/2000 pg. 41 (EAN 9780618059454, Hardcover)

Entertainment Weekly 05/26/2000 pg. 66 (EAN 9780618059454, Hardcover)

Newsweek 05/15/2000 pg. 70 (EAN 9780618059454, Hardcover)

Newsweek 10/01/2007 pg. 81 (EAN 9780618059454, Hardcover)

Booklist 03/01/2000 pg. 1148 (EAN 9780618059454, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

Publishers Weekly 03/27/2000 pg. 51 (EAN 9780618059454, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

Contributor Bio:  Roth, Philip In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. 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, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner and Saul Bellow, among others. He has twice won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. 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" and the W. H. Smith Award for the Best Book of the Year, making Roth the first writer in the forty-six-year history of the prize to win it twice. In 2005 Roth became the third living American writer to have his works published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. 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. In 2012 he won Spain's highest honor, the Prince of Asturias Award, and in 2013 he received France's highest honor, Commander of the Legion of Honor.