Indignation / Philip Roth.

Author/creator Roth, Philip
Format Book
Publication InfoBoston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008.
Description233 pages ; 20 cm
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Subjects
Young men--Fiction.
Jewish college students--Fiction.
Nineteen fifties--Fiction.
Antisemitism--Fiction.
Self-realization--Fiction.
New Jersey--Fiction.
Ohio--Fiction.

Contents Under morphine --- Out from under --- Historical note.
Abstract What impact can American history have 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.--From publisher's description.
Issued in other formOnline version: Roth, Philip. Indignation. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008
LCCN 2008011431
ISBN9780547054841
ISBN054705484X

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Joyner General Stacks PS3568 .O855 I53 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold