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 Silk has a secret that he has kept for fifty years. This is the conclusion to Roth's brilliant trilogy of post-war America - a story of seismic shifts in American history and a personal search for renewal and regeneration.
'An extraordinary book - bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand' Sunday Telegraph
ISBN: | 9781784875565 |
Publication date: | 1st August 2019 |
Author: | Philip Roth |
Publisher: | Vintage Classics an imprint of Random House |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 384 pages |
Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Narrative theme: Identity / belonging Narrative theme: Social issues |