Against the backdrop of the Korean War, a young man faces life's unimagined chances and terrifying consequences.
It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at the local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hard-working neighborhood butcher, seems to have gone mad -- mad with fear and apprehension of the dangers of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangers he sees in every corner for his beloved boy.
As the long-suffering, desperately harassed mother tells her son, the father's fear arises from love and pride. Perhaps, but it produces too much anger in Marcus for him to endure living with his parents any longer. He leaves them and, far from Newark, in the midwestern college, has to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world.
Indignation, Philip Roth's twenty-ninth book, is a story of inexperience, foolishness, intellectual resistance, sexual discovery, courage, and error. It is a story told with all the inventive energy and wit Roth has at his command, at once a startling departure from the haunted narratives of old age and experience in his recent books and a powerful addition to his investigations of the impact of American history on the life of the vulnerable individual.
It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at the local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hard-working neighborhood butcher, seems to have gone mad -- mad with fear and apprehension of the dangers of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangers he sees in every corner for his beloved boy.
As the long-suffering, desperately harassed mother tells her son, the father's fear arises from love and pride. Perhaps, but it produces too much anger in Marcus for him to endure living with his parents any longer. He leaves them and, far from Newark, in the midwestern college, has to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world.
Indignation, Philip Roth's twenty-ninth book, is a story of inexperience, foolishness, intellectual resistance, sexual discovery, courage, and error. It is a story told with all the inventive energy and wit Roth has at his command, at once a startling departure from the haunted narratives of old age and experience in his recent books and a powerful addition to his investigations of the impact of American history on the life of the vulnerable individual.
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September 2008 : Hardback
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September 2008 : Hardback
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September 2008 : Hardback
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Paperback Editions
October 2009 : Paperback
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September 2009 : Paperback
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August 2009 : Paperback
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August 2009 : Perfect Paperback
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August 2009 : Perfect Paperback
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October 2008 : Paperback
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January 2008 : Paperback
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Audio Editions
September 2008 : Audio Cassette
| Title: Indignation Author(s): Philip Roth ISBN: 1-4233-6971-8 / 978-1-4233-6971-4 (USA edition) Publisher: Brilliance Audio Unabridged Lib Ed Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
September 2008 : Audio CD
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September 2008 : Audio CD
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September 2008 : Audio CD
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September 2008 : Audio CD
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Other Editions
March 2009 : Unknown
| Title: Indignation [With Earbuds] (Playaway Adult Fiction) Author(s): Philip Roth ISBN: 1-60775-862-8 / 9781607758624 (USA edition) Publisher: Playaway Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
September 2008 : Kindle edition
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2008 : Unknown
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