The Human Stain topic

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 Roth had to have been at least partly inspired by... full article at wikipedia