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Indignation, Philip Roth's twenty-ninth book, is a powerful exploration of a remarkable moment in American history. It is a novel that highlights his masterful ability to re-create a time and a place and to populate it with unforgettable characters, as he has done in American Pastoral, The Plot Against America, and The Human Stain.

In 1951, the second year of the Korean War, a studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, begins his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio'sWinesburg College. He is here seeking refuge from his father, a sturdy, hardworking neighborhood butcher, who seems to have gone 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 around the customs and constrictions of another American world.

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