The Human Stain

<p><b>The American psyche is channelled into the gripping story of one man. This is the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth at his very best. </b><br><br>It is 1998 the year America is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president. In a small New England town a distinguished professor Coleman Silk is forced to retire when his colleagues allege that he is a racist. The charge is unfounded the persecution needless but the truth about Silk would astonish even his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret that he has kept for fifty years. This is the conclusion to Roth&#146;s brilliant trilogy of post-war America &#150; a story of seismic shifts in American history and a personal search for renewal and regeneration.<br><br>'An extraordinary book - bursting with rage humming with ideas full of dazzling sleights of hand' <i>Sunday Telegraph</i></p>