Summary
Reissued in electric new backlist style, The Human Stain is one of Philip Roth’s bestselling novels and winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
“An extraordinary book - bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand.” - Sunday Telegraph
Philip Roth’s brilliant conclusion to his eloquent trilogy of post-war America - a magnificent successor to American Pastoral and I Married a Communist.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099282198 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099282194 |
| Author: | Philip Roth |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 4 May 2001 |
| Weight: | 271g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
The Human Stain pulses with the strengths that make Roth a prime contender for the status of the most impressive novelist now writing in and about America
The Human Stain pulses with the strengths that make Roth a prime contender for the status of the most impressive novelist now writing in and about America * Sunday Times *
An extraordinary book - bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand’ * Sunday Telegraph *
One of his very best… There are passages of such sustained brilliance here that I found myself going over them again and again in gaping disbelief. An extraordinary book - bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand * Sunday Telegraph *
A novel so furious in its telling, with a plot so intricate in its construction that it is infused with a kind of diabolic joy. A masterpiece * Mail on Sunday *
[A] tender, shocking and incendiary story on the failure of the American dream refracted through the prism of race – Arifa Akbar * Guardian *
One of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read * Red *
Philip Roth
Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on March 19, 1933. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighborhood his writing returned to repeatedly.
Roth received the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959). His fourth novel, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969), secured his reputation as one of America’s finest writers. American Pastoral (1997) won the Pulitzer Prize.
Roth wrote thirty-one books in total, winning the International Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice. He was presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.
Roth died on May 22, 2018, at the age of eighty-five, six years after retiring from writing.
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