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The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk, a classics professor with a
terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town.
When his affair with a young troubled janitor is uncovered, the secret Silk had
harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his children and colleague, writer
Nathan Zuckerman, fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating
consequences. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets
out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man,
esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this
ingeniously contrived life came unraveled.