Human Stain
Philip Roth
It's 1998 in a small New England town and Coleman Silk, an aging
classics
professor, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a
racist. Silk also harbors a secret -- one he's kept for 50 years from his
wife, his four children, his colleagues, and his friends, including the
writer Nathan Zuckerman, who sets out to understand how this eminent,
upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, had
fabricated his identity and how that cannily controlled life came
unraveled.
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