by Philip Roth · Debolsillo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483465301
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In the summer of 1998, the Lewinsky scandal shakes the United States, exacerbating puritanism and political correctness. Coleman Silk, a New England professor, is forced to retire after being accused of racism. However, the truth about Silk could silence his detractors, as he holds a secret hidden for fifty years. This secret, unknown to his wife, family, and friends, will be unearthed by the writer Nathan Zuckerman, who will reconstruct Silk's life to understand how this ingenious fiction was woven. A story of courage, decay, lies, and failures, written by Philip Roth at the height of his creative talent.
Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller Portnoy's Complaint. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history The Plot Against America.
