Indignation - Hardcover

Roth, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224085131 ISBN 13: 9780224085137

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 2008

Synopsis

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 neighbourhood 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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Product Description:

1st Edition, 1st Impression. Very good clean tight sound, slightly shaken. Very good in bright gilt lettered blue cloth boards, together with original unclipped colour pictorail dustwrapper, with closed tear (2") and crease to lower leading corner of wrapper. A fascinating tale of a son escaping his father's fears for his future.

Review:

Roth's best novel since The Counterlife... [none since are] as intricately wrought, passionate and fascinating as this... a late masterpiece.

'indignation ought to be required reading for presidential candidates.'

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0224085131
• ISBN 13: 9780224085137
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256