The Human Stain
by Philip Roth · 2000
Literary Fiction · ranked #185 in category
Coleman Silk, a classics professor, is forced to resign after a remark interpreted as racist — a remark that conceals a secret about his own identity he has kept for fifty years. The third of Roth's American Trilogy, it is set in the summer of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal and asks what America does with its private truths.
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