The Human Stain: Philip Roth

Synopsis

'an extraordinary book - bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand'- sunday telegraphphilip roth's brilliant conclusion to his eloquent trilogy of post-war america - a magnificent successor to american pastoral and i married a communistit is 1998, the year america is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small new england town a distinguished classics professor, coleman silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues allege that he is a racist.