num_pages: 614
description: Coleman Silk has a secret. But it's not the secret of his affair, at seventy-one, with a woman half his age. And it's not the secret of his alleged racism, which provoked the college witchhunt that cost him his job. Coleman's secret is deeper, and lies at the very core of who he is, and he has kept it hidden from everyone for fifty years. Set in 1998, with the backdrop of the impeachment of a president, "The Human Stain" shows us an America where conflicting moralities and ideological divisions result in public denunciations and houndings, and where innocence is not always a good enough excuse.
language: English
title: The Human Stain
titlecomplete: The Human Stain
characters: Delphine Roux, Jeff Silk, Lisa Silk, Nathan Zuckerman, Ernestine Silk, Steena Palsson, Herb Keble, Iris Silk, Lester Farley, Nelson Primus, Faunia Farley, Coleman Silk, Mark Silk, Arthur Sussman
genres: Fiction, Classics, Contemporary, The United States Of America, American, Literary Fiction, Americana, Literature, Jewish, Novels
ratings_count: 40184
places: Massachusetts
series: Complete Nathan Zuckerman, The American Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: WH Smith Literary Award, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Prix Médicis Etranger, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Koret Jewish Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Thorndike Pr