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The Human Stain - film tie in

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Zusatztext ?Perhaps the best writing of [Roth?s] long career?. [ The Human Stain ] is a modern tragedy.?? Chicago Sun-Times Informationen zum Autor 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 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. Klappentext 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." Leseprobe Everyone Knows It was in the summer of 1998 that my neighbor Coleman Silk--who, before retiring two years earlier, had been a classics professor at nearby Athena College for some twenty-odd years as well as serving for sixteen more as the dean of faculty--confided to me that, at the age of seventy-one, he was having an affair with a thirty-four-year-old cleaning woman who worked down at the college. Twice a week she also cleaned the rural post office, a small gray clapboard shack that looked as if it might have sheltered an Okie family from the winds of the Dust Bowl back in the 1930s and that, sitting alone and forlorn across from the gas station and the general store, flies its American flag at the junction of the two roads that mark the commercial center of this mountainside town. Coleman had first seen the woman mopping the post office floor when he went around late one day, a few minutes before closing time, to get his mail--a thin, tall, angular woman with graying blond hair yanked back into a ponytail and the kind of severely sculpted features customarily associated with the church-ruled, hardworking goodwives who suffered through New England's harsh beginnings, stern colonial women locked up within the reigning morality and obedient to it. Her name was Faunia Farley, and whatever miseries she endured she kept concealed behind one of those inexpressive bone faces that hide nothing and bespeak an immense loneliness. Faunia lived in a room at a local dairy farm where she helped with the milking in order to pay her rent. She'd had two years of high school education. The summer that Coleman took me into his confidence about Faunia Farley and their secret was the summer, fittingly enough, that Bill Clinton's secret emerged in every last mortifying detail--every last lif...

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Authors Philip Roth
Publisher Vintage USA
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 08.05.2001
 
EAN 9780375726347
ISBN 978-0-375-72634-7
No. of pages 384
Dimensions 132 mm x 202 mm x 20 mm
Series VINTAGE BOOKS
Vintage International
Vintage International
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature

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