false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256130217m/6953335.jpg 3015764 14 Against the backdrop of the Korean War, a young man faces life's unimagined chances and terrifying consequences.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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 powerful addition to his investigations of the impact of American history on the life of the vulnerable individual. 3046305 16 9 2008 Indignation total:1111|5:153|4:438|3:365|2:128|1:27| 1111 3895 1828 309 3 13 false false Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 16:47:16 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 20:41:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 4 false false Fri Sep 26 07:08:03 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 26 07:23:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 4 false false Sat Apr 05 16:40:14 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 21 17:17:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 3 false false Sun Jan 04 19:22:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 14:47:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 2 false false Fri Nov 21 19:24:43 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 21 19:42:10 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Oct 25 17:07:01 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 04:58:23 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 25 17:07:01 -0700 2008 1 2 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 13 21:14:13 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 17 20:49:31 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Oct 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 23 19:45:49 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 23 19:49:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Mar 28 15:31:25 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 15:41:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 10:31:41 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 11:18:33 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 05 14:13:09 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 14:15:43 -0800 2009 STOP SMILING review of Indignation:

Has Philip Roth been spending time on the Animal House couch? His 29th novel, which takes place mostly at a tranquil Midwestern college, includes several key elements of classic campus satires:

1) a panty raid

2) a malevol...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jan 05 12:54:30 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 12:55:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Dec 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 24 09:34:46 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 24 09:50:35 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 20:34:05 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 20:36:19 -0800 2008 And after 29 novels, it is safe to say that there are certain themes and situations...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Nov 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 18:49:44 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 19:30:47 -0800 2008 1 We begin to know Marcus Messner through his first person na...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 22 17:16:08 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 17:31:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false true Mon Nov 02 18:55:37 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 19:19:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 true false Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 19:57:39 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 15:49:32 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:59:27 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:59:27 -0800 2009 The prolific Roth routinely evokes the nostalgia of the post-war era in America, and Indignation should put an exclamation point on a brilliant career spanning half a century. In a passage that's pure Roth, his protagonist, Marcus Messner, laments "the terrible, the incomprehensible way one's m...

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