The Human Stain: American Trilogy (3)

Roth, Philip

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0375726349 ISBN 13: 9780375726347

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2001

In an insightful new novel by the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of I Married a Communist, a college professor with a sexual indiscretion in his past is hounded from his job by academic enemies who label him a racist. Reissue. (A Miramax Films & Paramount Pictures film, written by Nicholas Meyer, directed by Robert Benton, releasing Fall 2003, starring Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Gary Sinise, & Ed Harris) (General Fiction)

Recensione:

?Perhaps the best writing of [Roth?s] long career?. [The Human Stain] is a modern tragedy.??Chicago Sun-Times

L'autore:

In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003–2004.” Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018.