Indignation - Vintage International

Zusatztext 46740190 Informationen zum Autor PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for  American Pastoral . In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at   the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American   Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction.   He twice won the National Book Award and the National   Book Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN/Faulkner   Award three times. In 2005  The Plot Against America  received   the Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding   historical novel on an American theme for 2003–2004.”   Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards:   in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities   Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth   recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018. Klappentext National Bestseller. Now a major motion picture, directed by James Schamus! In 1951, the second year of the Korean War, a studious, law-abiding, and intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, begins his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at a local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hardworking neighborhood 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. Far from Newark, Marcus has to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world. Indignation, Philip Roth's twenty-ninth book, is a startling departure from the haunted narratives of old age and experience in Roth's recent books and a powerful exploration of a remarkable moment in American history. Leseprobe Under Morphine About two and a half months after the well-trained divisions of North Korea, armed by the Soviets and Chinese Communists, crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea on June 25, 1950, and the agonies of the Korean War began, I entered Robert Treat, a small college in downtown Newark named for the city's seventeenth-century founder. I was the first member of our family to seek a higher education. None of my cousins had gone beyond high school, and neither my father nor his three brothers had finished elementary school. "I worked for money," my father told me, "since I was ten years old." He was a neighborhood butcher for whom I'd delivered orders on my bicycle all through high school, except during baseball season and on the afternoons when I had to attend interschool matches as a member of the debating team. Almost from the day that I left the store–where I'd been working sixty-hour weeks for him between the time of my high school graduation in January and the start of college in September–almost from the day that I began classes at Robert Treat, my father became frightened that I would die. Maybe his fear had something to do with the war, which the U.S. armed forces, under United Nations auspices, had immediately entered to bolster the efforts of the ill-trained and under-equipped South Korean army; maybe it had something to do with the heavy casualties our troops were sustaining against the Communist firepower and his fear that if the conflict dragged on as long as World War Two had, I would be drafted into the army to fight and die on the Korean battlefield as my cousins Abe and Dave had died during World War Two. Or maybe the fear had to do with his financial worries: the year before, the neighborhood's first supermarket had opened only a few blocks from our family's kosher butcher shop, and sales had begun steadily falling off, in part because of the supermarket's meat and poultry section's undercu...

Product details

• Authors: Philip Roth
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.10.2009
• EAN: 9780307388919
• ISBN: 978-0-307-38891-9
• Series: Vintage International; Vintage International
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature