内容简介
Against the backdrop of the Korean War, a young man faceslife's unimagined chances and terrifying consequences. It is 1951in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious,law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, MarcusMessner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral,conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is hethere and not at the local college in Newark where he originallyenrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hard-working neighborhoodbutcher, seems to have gone mad -- mad with fear and apprehensionof the dangers of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangershe sees in every corner for his beloved boy. As the long-suffering,desperately harassed mother tells her son, the father's fear arisesfrom love and pride. Perhaps, but it produces too much anger inMarcus for him to endure living with his parents any longer. Heleaves them and, far from Newark, in the midwestern college, has tofind his way amid the customs and constrictions of another Americanworld. Indignation, Philip Roth's twenty-ninth book, is a story ofinexperience, foolishness, intellectual resistance, sexualdiscovery, courage, and error. It is a story told with all theinventive energy and wit Roth has at his command, at once astartling departure from the haunted narratives of old age andexperience in his recent books and a powerful addition to hisinvestigations of the impact of American history on the life of thevulnerable individual.