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Book Review of The Human Stain

The Human Stain
The Human Stain
Author: Philip Roth
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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The woman at work who recommended this book to me has never missed yet. This is the story of an aging professor at a small New England college who makes an offhand remark about a couple of students cutting his class that is inadvertently taken as racist. He himself is black but since his youth has covered up his race and because of his light pigmentation has been accepted as a white man, much to the chagrin of his family. An oddball story but it is a very good book. You will not be disappointed.