The human stain / Philip Roth.
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TextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000Description: 361 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0618059458; 9780618059454Subject(s): Passing (Identity) -- Fiction | African American men -- Fiction | College teachers -- Fiction | Jewish men -- Fiction | Psychological fiction | American 20th century -- Fiction | Newark (N.J.) -- FictionGenre/Form: Psychological fiction. | Humorous fiction. DDC classification: 813/.54 LOC classification: PS3568.O855 | H8 2000Online resources: Sample text | Contributor biographical information | Publisher description Summary: Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeply into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when Coleman's affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley is exposed. But amid the controversy, Silk must struggle to keep his greatest secret, a secret he's held for the majority of his life, from becoming made public.
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Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeply into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when Coleman's affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley is exposed. But amid the controversy, Silk must struggle to keep his greatest secret, a secret he's held for the majority of his life, from becoming made public.
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