Indignation

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9780224085137
  • 18 september 2008
  • 256 pagina's
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It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at the local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hard-working neighbourhood butcher, seems to have gone mad - 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.As the long-suffering, desperately harassed mother tells her son, the father's fear arises from love and pride. Perhaps, but it produces too much anger in Marcus for him to endure living with his parents any longer. He leaves them and, far from Newark, in the Midwestern college, has to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world. Indignation , Philip Roth's twenty-ninth book, tells the story of the young man's education in life's terrifying chances and bizarre obstructions. It is a story of inexperience, foolishness, intellectual resistance, sexual discovery, courage and error. It is a story told with all the inventive energy and wit Roth has at his command, at once a startling departure from the haunted narratives of old age and experience in his recent books and a powerful addition to his investigations of the impact of American history on the life of the vulnerable individual.

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Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
18 september 2008
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256
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Hoofdauteur
Philip Roth
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Vintage Publishing

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145 mm
Product hoogte
26 mm
Product lengte
223 mm
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138 mm
Verpakking hoogte
221 mm
Verpakking lengte
221 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht
398 g
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9780224085137

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ca. 1950-1999

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  • Sensitive masterpiece of a forgotten era

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    • Fantasierijk
    • Goede verhaallijn
    • Meeslepend verhaal
    • Grappig
    • Spannend
    • Grappig
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    Toon alleen de eerste 3 punten

    Late 19th and early 20th Jewish immigrants in the US worked long hours in physical jobs, hoping their children would do better thanks to education. This book is about the years 1950-1952 during the Korean War. From a young age Marcus Messner (MM) is a model son who helps his parents run a kosher butchery in Newark, NJ. He graduates with straight A’s from high school and helps his father in the shop until his departure to a nearby college. The signs were already there, but once MM has moved out his father is developing ever more irritating and intrusive bouts of anger at the world around him and anxiety about his only son's safety.
    MM always has Korea on his mind: if he flunks he will be drafted and killed. Better to graduate with top marks and become an officer and improve his chance of survival. But his father’s frantic behaviour prompts MM to move to a mediocre college in Ohio, where he does not always deal smartly with a series of new challenges and problems. Only two of the 15+ fraternities accept Jews, but he refuses to join the only Jewish one on campus, suspecting (rightly) his meddling father asked them to recruit him. When he joins later on, he will come to regret his decision…
    Philip Roth became world famous with “Portnoy’s Complaint” (1969) and is today an institution among American literary writers. This short novel is often funny, often sad, always moving and a pleasure to read. Readers have to find out for themselves how MM will solve his different problems. Roth has written a domestic American history of an almost forgotten war. To recreate the atmosphere of the time, create a tense plot and a range of believable characters is a great achievement.

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  • Boeiend kort verhaal

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    • Spannend
    • Grappig
    • Fantasierijk

    Goed verhaal geschreven met passie en overtuiging. Inspireert me om meer van Philip Roth te lezen!

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  • Verontwaardiging

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    • lees het boek. dan zie je hoe goed het is

    beleef de stijgende verontwaardiging in de scène met de dean.

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