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The Human Stain

The Human Stain (2000) is a novel by Philip Roth. It is set in late 1990s rural New England. Its first person narrator is 65-year-old author Nathan Zuckerman, a character in previous Roth novels, including American Pastoral (1997) and I Married a Communist (1998); these two books form a loose trilogy with The Human Stain. Zuckerman acts largely as an observer rather than the protagonist of the novel. Salon.com critic Charles Taylor argues that Ro... more

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Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933) is an American novelist. He gained fame with the 1959 story collection Goodbye, Columbus, and has since become one of the most honored authors of his generation: Roth's books have twice been awarded the National Book Award, twice the National Book Critics...

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