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Article: Rage is all the rage in America: With 'The Human Stain,' Philip Roth completes the trilogy begun by 'American Pastoral' and 'I Married a Communist.'.(Features)(Books)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- May 11, 2000
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The Human Stain By Philip Roth Houghton Mifflin 361 pp., $26
Shhhhh.
Philip Roth has written another brilliant novel, but almost anything you read about "The Human Stain" will spoil the effect. Several reviewers have already blown it. (They should be forced to watch "The Crying Game" 100 times.) If you plan to read the book, beware what else you read about it.
Roth's favorite narrator and alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, is back to tell the surprising life story of Coleman Silk, "an outgoing, sharp-witted, forcefully smooth big-city charmer." At a time when Silk should be attending dedicatory ceremonies with other retired professors, he finds ...