The Human Stain

The Human Stain pulses with the strengths that make Roth a prime contender for the status of the most impressive novelist now writing in and about America * Sunday Times *
One of his very best… There are passages of such sustained brilliance here that I found myself going over them again and again in gaping disbelief. An extraordinary book - bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand * Sunday Telegraph *
A novel so furious in its telling, with a plot so intricate in its construction that it is infused with a kind of diabolic joy. A masterpiece * Mail on Sunday *
[A] tender, shocking and incendiary story on the failure of the American dream refracted through the prism of race – Arifa Akbar * Guardian *
One of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read * Red *

Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on March 19, 1933. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighborhood that featured prominently in his work.

Roth received the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959). His fourth novel, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969), established his reputation as a major American writer, and American Pastoral (1997) won the Pulitzer Prize.

Over his career, Roth authored thirty-one books and received numerous accolades, including the International Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.

Philip Roth died on May 22, 2018, at the age of eighty-five, six years after retiring from writing.

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