The Human Stain | Characters
The Human Stain is the eighth of his novels that Roth tells through his narrative alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, who serves as the filtering consciousness and narrator of this especially complex moral fiction. Zuckerman has aged appropriately since his first appearance as a twenty-three-yearold apprentice writer in The Ghost Writer in 1979; he now lives (without prostate or sex drive) alone in a two-room cabin near a small western Massachusetts college town, the home of Athena College. As a professional writer, he has long observed his fellow human beings and listened to...
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