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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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Helpful Score: 1


This was a very captivating book. The themes are fresh and unique. I've really never read another book like this. It is so ironic that the protagonist makes a decision to reject his African-American heritage to ive his life as a white male so that he can control his destiny but in the end the fact that he is known as a white male throws his life into chaos and, ultimately, destroys it. At times the book goes into stream of conciousness writing that I found to be a bit long and tedious but otherwise the book is just extremely interesting.