Indignation
In the second year of the Korean War, a butcher's son flees Newark because of his father's increasingly unhinged fears for his safety. Heading to the Midwest, he finds a strange collegiate land of fraternities, football heroes, V-neck pullover sweaters and white buckskin shoes, mandatory chapel services, and, most startlingly, a young woman with desires of her own
GenresYoung menFictionJewish college studentsNineteen fiftiesAntisemitismSelf-realization
233 pages, 3 editions
English edition · First published 2008 by Vintage Books · ISBN 9780307388919
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Editions
3 editions
English
- Indignation · Vintage Books · 2009 · ISBN 9780307388919 · 1 reader This page
- Indignation: A Taut Philip Roth Novel of a Young Man's Fight Against Conformity on a Midwestern Campus or A Philip Roth Novel of a Newark Student Whose Rigid Independence Leads to Tragic Consequences · Mariner Books Classics · 2026 · ISBN 9780063499324
- Indignation · HarperCollins · 2008 · ISBN 9780547345307
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