It is 1998, the year in which America is wihpped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would astonish his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret, one which has been kept for fifty years from his wife, his four children, his collegues, and his friends, including writer Nathan Zuckerman. 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."

sending to emb with Sea Glass in exchange for We Were the Mulvaneys and Fall On Your Knees. sent 12/4/04 .. enjoy :) !!

looking forward to reading. Thanks for the recipe card!