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Indignation
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Manufacturer: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed
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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 a 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, tells the story of the young man’s education in life’s terrifying chances and bizarre obstructions. It 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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What Customers Say About Indignation:
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Several hours after finishing this novel, I am still shaken by its emotional impact. This novel is a profound work of art that reminds us of fiction's power to make us think and feel. Highly recommended.
This is my second Roth book and it was even better than the The Humbling. Beautiful prose rivaling that of Ian McEwan.
Is it his parents, the college administrators, his roommates, or his girlfriend. Philip Roth has once more created a believable and memorable character here. Have you ever felt so angry at someone or something that this anger consumed your every thought and action. Should you feel sorry for Marcus for the fear and pressures put upon him by authority figures, politics, the Korean war, religion, and sex. Poor Marcus Messner, a victim of indignation. But who is the enemy here. Would you react the same way if you were Marcus. A quick and worthwhile read, with much to reflect upon especially if you, like me, pictured yourself in similar situations.
In many ways the Woody Allen of American fiction, Philip Roth keeps getting better and better. The material is familiar but the treatment and style is peerless. May he keep going and give us many more books in future.
Indignation has high moments of commedy and searing tragedy. From America's greatest living writer comes another great novel, smaller in scale than his true magnum opus, American Pastoral, but just as evocative of a moment in recent American history--the Korean War, and a time in a man's life--going off to college. What is somewhat less well developed is the relationship between the hero and his parents, which struck me as more simply a product of fate rather than true psychological causation. A must read for Roth fans. The Nobel is long, long overdue for Roth.
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