Indignation

By Philip Roth

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Philip Roth's 2008 novel is set in 1951, during the Korean War, and follows Marcus Messner, the studious son of a kosher butcher in Newark. To escape his father's anxious control, Marcus transfers to Winesburg College in Ohio, where he clashes with his roommates and the dean, falls for a troubled classmate, and makes choices with consequences he cannot imagine.

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• Barack Obama: “Some of the great books by Jewish authors like Philip Roth or Saul Bellow, they are steeped with this sense of being an outsider, longing to get in, not sure what you're giving up — what you're willing to give up and what you're not willing to give up.”