The human stain

ISBN: 9780547345031 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0547345038 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource remote 1 online resource (361 p.)
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

Summary: Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeply into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when Coleman's affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley is exposed. But amid the controversy, Silk must struggle to keep his greatest secret, a secret he's held for the majority of his life, from becoming made public.