Indignation

Resource Information

The work Indignation represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Charleston County Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Indignation

Statement of responsibility

Philip Roth

Creator

• Roth, Philip

Subject

• Jewish college students -- Fiction
• New Jersey -- Fiction
• Nineteen fifties -- Fiction
• Antisemitism -- Fiction
• Self-realization -- Fiction
• Young men -- Fiction
• Ohio -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

What impact can American history have on the life of the vulnerable individual? 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.--From publisher's description

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3568.O855

LC item number

I53 2008

Literary form

fiction