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Indignation
Philip Roth
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Description for Indignation
Paperback. 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 here and not at a local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 178.
Now a major motion picture starring Sarah Gadon, Logan Lerman and Ben Rosenfield, and adapted for the screen by James Schamus
During the second year of the Korean War in 1951, studious, law-abiding Marcus Messner is beginning his sophomore year on the conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. Marcus has fled from his hometown of Newark, New jersey, trying to escape his father's oppressive love - a love that is also a mad fear of the dangers of adult life soon to face his son. Whilst at college, Marcus has to traverse an American world that isn't his own: ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099523420
SKU
V9780099523420
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About Philip Roth
Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933. The second child of second-generation Americans, Bess and Herman Roth, Roth grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood he was to return to time and again in his writing. After graduating from Weequahic High School in 1950, he attended Bucknell University, Pennsylvania and the ... Read more
Reviews for Indignation
Intricately wrought, passionate and fascinating... A late masterpiece
Financial Times
In Indignation, his power and intensity seem undiminished
New York Times
He is a writer of quite extraordinary skill and courage
London Review of Books
I relished Indignation. Roth writes with his trademark drive and fluency, on the knife blade between rage and laughter ... Read more
Financial Times
In Indignation, his power and intensity seem undiminished
New York Times
He is a writer of quite extraordinary skill and courage
London Review of Books
I relished Indignation. Roth writes with his trademark drive and fluency, on the knife blade between rage and laughter ... Read more