Author: Philip Roth
Narrator: Ray Chase
Unabridged: 4 hr 15 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Published: 03/01/2016
Genre: Fiction - Literary
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 Ohios 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 madmad 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 Roths twenty-ninth book, is a startling departure from the haunted narratives of old age and experience in Roths recent books and a powerful exploration of a remarkable moment in American history.
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