Philip roth biography the human stain synopsis

This article is about the novel. For the movie, see The Human Stain (film).

2000 novel by Philip Roth

The Human Stain is a novel by Philip Roth, published May 5, 2000.

The book is set in Western Massachusetts in the late 1990s. Its narrator is 65-year-old author Nathan Zuckerman, who appears in several earlier Roth novels, including two books that form a loose trilogy with The Human Stain,American Pastoral (1997) and I Married a Communist (1998).^[1] Zuckerman acts largely as an observer as the complex story of the protagonist, Coleman Silk, a retired professor of classics, is slowly revealed.

Philip roth biography the human stain synopsis summary

A national bestseller, The Human Stain was adapted in 2003 as a film by the same name directed by Robert Benton.

Synopsis

Coleman Silk is a former professor and dean of the faculty at Athena College, a fictional institution in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, where he still lives.

The story is narrated by Roth's recurring character Natha