num_pages: 235
description: Against the backdrop of the Korean War a young man faces lifes 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 Ohios 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 fathers 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 Roths 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.
language: English
title: Indignation
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt