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Book SynopsisNow a major motion picture 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.
Trade ReviewIntricately wrought, passionate and fascinating...
A late masterpiece * Financial Times *
In
Indignation, his power and intensity seem undiminished * New York Times *
He is a writer of quite extraordinary skill and courage * London Review of Books *
I relished
Indignation. Roth writes with his trademark drive and fluency, on the knife blade between rage and laughter * Guardian *
Roth reasserts his fictional mastery with a fine taut narrative about the frustrations of youth...every part of it is dovetailed into a story of compelling economy...a mid-20th-century tale of nemesis with
all the intellectual and imaginative force of a great novelist writing at the height of his powers * Sunday Times *
