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Title: Creaky plot
Review: A Human Stain is about racially sensitivity taken to absurds never seen in real life mixed up with a book about passing as white, spiced up with geriatric sex, Viagra, Monica Lewinsky, a crazy Vietnam vet, and two dead kids, mixed thoroughly with a heavy theme of the sacrifices caused by living a lie/trying to escape your past (not really the same thing, but maybe if you take a screwy look). I think Roth took every idea he had and threw them up against the wall, and lord amercy they all stuck. Good thing he writes a lot. We can go read his good stuff and try to forget this mess.
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