The Human Stain: American Trilogy (3)Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2000 - 384 páginas NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral delivers “a master novelist's haunting parable about our troubled modern moment" (The Wall Street Journal). 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." |
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... stuff . This guy Clinton , this is schoolboy stuff . " " I don't think he was a schoolboy when he was down in Arkan- sas . " " No , the scale was right in Arkansas . Here it was all out of whack . And it must have driven him crazy ...
... stuff . This guy Clinton , this is schoolboy stuff . " " I don't think he was a schoolboy when he was down in Arkan- sas . " " No , the scale was right in Arkansas . Here it was all out of whack . And it must have driven him crazy ...
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... stuff it takes to lift that beau- tiful black carcass off the ground . Sure , they have their strange be- havior . Like anything else . I've seen them up in those trees , gathered all together , talking all together , and something's ...
... stuff it takes to lift that beau- tiful black carcass off the ground . Sure , they have their strange be- havior . Like anything else . I've seen them up in those trees , gathered all together , talking all together , and something's ...
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... Stuff that should have been taken and hadn't . It was clear that he was trying to get help , but he couldn't do it . He couldn't take the medication . " " How do you know this ? " Coleman asked . " I'm assuming . I don't know . This is ...
... Stuff that should have been taken and hadn't . It was clear that he was trying to get help , but he couldn't do it . He couldn't take the medication . " " How do you know this ? " Coleman asked . " I'm assuming . I don't know . This is ...
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