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Philip Roth - Human Stain, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

Human Stain

Av Philip Roth

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Beskrivning
'An extraordinary book - bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand'- Sunday TelegraphPhilip Roth's brilliant conclusion to his eloquent trilogy of post-war America - a magnificent successor to American Pastoral and I Married a CommunistIt is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town a distinguished classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues allege that he is a racist. The charge is unfounded, the persecution needless, but the truth about Silk would astonish 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 comes upon Silk's secret, and sets out to unearth his former buried life, piecing the biographical fragments back together. This is against backdrop of seismic shifts in American history, which take on real, human urgency as Zuckerman discovers more and more about Silk's past and his futile search for renewal and regeneration.________________PRAISE FOR THE HUMAN STAIN:'One of the most beautiful books I've ever read' Red'[A] tender, shocking and incendiary story on the failure of the American dream refracted through the prism of race' Guardian'A masterpiece' Mail on Sunday
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2001-04-05
  • Mått: 130 x 195 x 22 mm
  • Vikt: 270 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 384
  • Förlag: Vintage Publishing
  • ISBN: 9780099282198
  • Utmärkelser: Winner of WH Smith Literary Prize 2001
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Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933, to second-generation Americans Bess and Herman. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood his writing returned to time and again.Roth received the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), but it was his fourth, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) which secured his reputation as one of America’s finest writers, and American Pastoral (1997) which won the Pulitzer Prize. Roth wrote thirty-one books in all, 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 aged eighty-five on 22 May 2018, six years after retiring from writing.

Recensioner i media

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

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4 recensioner, genomsnitt 4/5

  1. 4/5 Karin

    Välskriven och tankeväckande. Stundtals provocerande, och ibland förvirrande. Långa meningar och kapitel. Mycket intressant infallsvinkel på identitesskapande: hur mycket kan vi själva bestämma över vilka vi är och vilka vi vill vara?

  2. 3/5 Stefan S

    Seg deg av en mästerlig författare som har skrivit mycket roligare. Kanske tycker jag så för att jag inte ser poängen med ett helt epos om politisk korrekthet.

  3. 5/5 Apan N
  4. 4/5 Luxor2016

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