Soon to be a major motion picture based on Philip Roth's outstanding novel Indignation, starring Sarah Gadon, Logan Lerman and Ben Rosenfield, and adapted for the screen by James Schamus. During the second year of the Korean War in 1951, studious, law-abiding Marcus Messner is beginning his sophomore year on the conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. Marcus has fled from his hometown of Newark, New jersey, trying to escape his father's oppressive love - a love that is also a mad fear of the dangers of adult life soon to face his son. Whilst at college, Marcus has to traverse an American world that isn't his own: facing off against ardent Christian, Dean Cauldwell, and falling in love with the beautiful Olivia Hutton. Indignation gleams with narrative muscle, as it twists and turns unpredictably, and extends - shockingly - beyond the confines of natural life.
- ISBN10 054705484X
- ISBN13 9780547054841
- Publish Date 16 September 2008 (first published 1 January 2008)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Houghton Mifflin
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 233
- Language English