The human stain

361 pages

English language

Published March 17, 2001 by Vintage International.

ISBN:
978-0-375-72634-7
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OCLC Number:
44876951

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Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeply into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when Coleman's affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley is exposed. But amid the controversy, Silk must struggle to keep his greatest secret, a secret he's held for the majority of his life, from becoming made public.

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Subjects

  • Jewish men
  • Passing (Identity)
  • College teachers
  • African American men
  • Fiction

Places

  • Newark (N.J.)