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Sep 16, 2013
"When Marcus Messner turned 18, his father, a kosher butcher in Newark, New Jersey, became ridiculously overprotective (to be fair, it's 1951, the height of the Korean War, and Marcus's father is worried his son will be drafted). After attending college for a year while living at home, Marcus has had it with his father, so he flees to rural, conservative Winesburg College in Ohio. There, citified Marcus is a bit out of his depth, especially when confronted with obnoxious roommates, the college dean, and pretty girls who are rather more experienced than he. Readers of Philip Roth's other works will notice similar themes here, but Indignation has pleasures - and surprises - all its own." September 2013 Fiction A to Z newsletter http://www.nextreads.com/Display2.aspx?SID=5acc8fc1-4e91-4ebe-906d-f8fc5e82a8e0&N=678205