Indignation

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Indignation (2008, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company)

256, pagine

lingua English

Pubblicato il 03 Luglio 2008 da Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

ISBN:
978-0-547-34530-7
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A dazzling new novel from a modern master of the form.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 here and not at a local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hardworking 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 the every corner for his beloved boy. So Marcus leaves and, far from home, has to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world.Indignation is the story of a young man's education in life's terrifying chances and bizarre obstructions. It is a story of inexperience, foolishness, intellectual …

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Argomenti

  • American fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Jews, fiction
  • New jersey, fiction
  • Ohio, fiction
  • Fiction, coming of age
  • Fiction, historical