The Human Stain: American Trilogy, Philip Roth plays the setup is this: The

the setup is this: The members of a university detective-fiction club

But when the boy she’s set her sights on—the handsome and haunted Stefan—isn’t interested

taciturn character has inspired countless other policemen in crime fiction

He likes art

but his story soon becomes more complicated than Wendy could have imagined

The Human Stain: American Trilogy, Philip Roth plays the setup is this: TheNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE PEN FAULKNER AWARD The Pulitzer Prizewinning author of American Pastoral delivers a master novelist's haunting parable about our troubled modern moment" (The Wall Street Journal). It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he