The Human Stain: Philip Roth - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1784875562 ISBN 13: 9781784875565

Casa editrice: Vintage Classics, 2025

Riassunto

La psiche americana è incanalata nell'avvincente storia di un uomo. Questo è lo scrittore vincitore del premio Pulitzer Philip Roth al suo meglio. È il 1998, l'anno in cui l'America è sprofondata in una frenesia di prurigine a causa dell'impeachment di un presidente. In una piccola città del New England un illustre professore, Coleman Silk, è costretto a ritirarsi quando i suoi colleghi lo accusano di essere razzista. L'accusa è infondata, la persecuzione inutile, ma la verità su Silk stupirebbe persino il suo accusatore più virulento. Coleman Silk ha un segreto che ha tenuto nascosto per cinquant'anni. Questa è la conclusione della brillante trilogia di Roth sull'America del dopoguerra: una storia di cambiamenti sismici nella storia americana e una ricerca personale di rinnovamento e rigenerazione. "Un libro straordinario, pieno di rabbia, ronzio di idee, pieno di abbaglianti giochi di prestigio" Sunday Telegraph.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933. The second child of second-generation Americans, Bess and Herman Roth, Roth grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood he was to return to time and again in his writing. After graduating from Weequahic High School in 1950, he attended Bucknell University, Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago, where he received a scholarship to complete his M.A. in English Literature.

In 1959, Roth published Goodbye, Columbus – a collection of stories, and a novella – for which he received the National Book Award. Ten years later, the publication of his fourth novel, Portnoy’s Complaint, brought Roth both critical and commercial success, firmly securing his reputation as one of America’s finest young writers. Roth was the author of thirty-one books, including those that were to follow the fortunes of Nathan Zuckerman, and a fictional narrator named Philip Roth, through which he explored and gave voice to the complexities of the American experience in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.

Roth’s lasting contribution to literature was widely recognised throughout his lifetime, both in the US and abroad. Among other commendations he was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the International Man Booker Prize, twice the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award, and presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.

Philip Roth died on 22 May 2018 at the age of eighty-five having retired from writing six years previously.

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The American psyche is channelled into the gripping story of one man. This is the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth at his very best. It is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president. In a small New England town a distinguished professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues allege that he is a racist. The charge is unfounded, the persecution needless, but the truth about Silk would astonish even his most virulent accuser. Coleman

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Vintage Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1784875562
• ISBN 13: 9781784875565
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 384
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