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Indignation

by Philip Roth
$20.90
Indignation
Indignation

Young man's clash with 1950s American conformity.

If you've ever felt like an outsider or grappled with the expectations of society, "Indignation" might resonate with you. It's not just the keen insight into the era's social mores that makes this book compelling, but also Marcus's intense personal journey and the vivid portrayal of his struggles. Philip Roth's storytelling will sweep you into a young man's confrontation with a world that seems set against him, making this an engrossing read on rebellion and identity.

  • Κρατικό Βραβείο Λογοτεχνικής Μετάφρασης for Μετάφραση Έργου Ξένης Λογοτεχνίας στην Ελληνική Γλώσσα (2010)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Indignation

by Philip Roth
$20.90
ISBN: 9780547054841
Authors: Philip Roth
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date of Publication: 2008-09-05
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.77
(rated by 17488 readers)

Description

Against the backdrop of the Korean War, a young man faces life’s unimagined chances and terrifying consequences. 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. Indignation, Philip Roth’s twenty-ninth book, 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
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Young man's clash with 1950s American conformity.

If you've ever felt like an outsider or grappled with the expectations of society, "Indignation" might resonate with you. It's not just the keen insight into the era's social mores that makes this book compelling, but also Marcus's intense personal journey and the vivid portrayal of his struggles. Philip Roth's storytelling will sweep you into a young man's confrontation with a world that seems set against him, making this an engrossing read on rebellion and identity.

  • Κρατικό Βραβείο Λογοτεχνικής Μετάφρασης for Μετάφραση Έργου Ξένης Λογοτεχνίας στην Ελληνική Γλώσσα (2010)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.