Indignation - Philip Roth

National Bestseller. Now a major motion picture, directed by James Schamus!

In 1951, the second year of the Korean War, a studious, law-abiding,
and intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, begins his sophomore
year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College.
And why is
he there and not at a local college in Newark where he originally enrolled?
Because
his father, the sturdy, hardworking 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.
Far from Newark, Marcus
has to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world.

Indignation, Philip Roth's twenty-ninth book, is a startling departure from the
haunted narratives of old age and experience in Roth's recent books and a powerful
exploration of a remarkable moment in American history.