✍ Scribed by Philip Roth
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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...
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
In 1951, Marcus Messner, a studious young man from Newark, New Jersey, escapes his butcher father's fears about the potential dangers facing his beloved son, by attending college at Ohio's pastoral, conservative Winesburg College.
**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 Col
### Amazon.com Review *Indignation*, his 25th novel, he has constructed a taut, haunting (and, as always, funny) story that ranks among his best. Reading at times like a buttoned-down *Indignation* records a series of small explosions against '50s propriety and the dire consequences they lead to, c
La vigésimo novena novela de Roth cuenta la historia de la educación de un joven judío, hijo único de una familia de carniceros kosher del Newark de la década de 1950. Tentado por las oportunidades que le depara el futuro y asfixiado por las estrambóticas restricciones de un padre excesivamente apre
Corre 1951, el segundo año de la guerra de Corea. Marcus Messner, de Newark, Nueva Jersey, comienza su segundo curso en la bucólica y conservadora Universidad de Winesburg en Ohio. ¿Por qué está ahí? Porque su padre, un esforzado carnicero de barrio, parece haber perdido el juicio, loco de temor y a