The human stain
Philip Roth (Author), Gerald Peary (Donor), Gerald Peary Collection (College of Staten Island Library)
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
Print Book, English, 2001
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Vintage International, New York, 2001
Psychological fiction
361 pages ; 21 cm
9780375726347, 0375726349
44876951
"(2003) - Robert Benton w. Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise" -from Collector's description