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"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 his most virulent accuser.".
"Coleman Silk has a secret. But it's not the secret of his affair, at seventy-one, with Faunia Farley, a woman half his age with a savagely wrecked past, a part-time farm-hand and a janitor at Athena College, where until recently Coleman was the powerful dean of faculty. And it's not the secret of misogyny, despite the best efforts of his ambitious young colleague at the college, Professor Delphine Roux, to expose him as a fiend.
Nor is it the secret of Coleman's alleged racism, which provoked the college witch-hunt that cost him his job and, to his mind, killed his wife." "Coleman's secret has been kept for fifty years: from his wife, his four children, his colleagues, and his friends, including the writer Nathan Zuckerman, who sets out to reconstruct the biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how that ingeniously contrived life came untraveled."--BOOK JACKET.
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award:pen_faulkner_award=fiction, Passing (Identity), PEN/Faulkner Award Winner, award:pen_faulkner_award=2001, Fiction, Jewish men, College teachers, African American men, Large type books, Fiction, psychological, African americans, fiction, Jews, fiction, College teachers, fiction, New jersey, fiction, American literature, Racisme, Verenigde Staten, 1991-2000, Romans en novellen ; vertaald, Romans, nouvelles, Noirs américainsPlaces
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In 1990's America, the Human Stain is the story told by Nathan Zuckerman, a writer who lives a secluded life until the aging classics professor Coleman Silk becomes his new neighbor.
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