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Indignation
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $18.99
ISBN13: 9780063499324
Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
Published: Sep 8 2026
Pages: 176
Language: English
Mesmerizing ... Philip Roth's intrepid novel of self-revelation demands to be read in one sitting. It's that good. It's that audacious. It's that compelling. --The Seattle Times
He is a master. And the short form serves the story: The shocking rush from this book comes from watching Roth expertly and quickly build up to a half-dozen final pages that absolutely deliver the kill. --Entertainment Weekly
Against the backdrop of the Korean War, a young man faces life's unimagined chances and terrifying consequences in his sophomore year far from home on the conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College.
It is 1951 in America. 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.
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