<p><b>The American psyche is channelled into the gripping story of one man. This is the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth at his very best. </b><br><br>It is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president. In a small New England town a distinguished professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues allege that he is a racist. The charge is unfounded, the persecution needless, but the truth about Silk would astonish even his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret that he has kept for fifty years. This is the conclusion to Roth¿s brilliant trilogy of post-war America ¿ a story of seismic shifts in American history and a personal search for renewal and regeneration.<br><br>''An extraordinary book - bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand'' <i>Sunday Telegraph</i></p>