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Indignation

Roth, Philip (Author).

Summary: Marcus Messner, the nineteen-year-old son of a Newark butcher, must learn to handle life on his own after he flees to Winesburg, Ohio, to attend college and even more to escape his father whose anxiety that Marcus could be sent to fight in the Korean War has made him suffocatingly overprotective.

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  • ISBN: 054705484X (trade)
  • ISBN: 9780547054841 (trade)
  • Physical Description: 233 pages ; 20 cm
    print
  • Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2008.

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Citation/References Note:
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Library Journal, September 01, 2008
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Target Audience Note:
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Adult
Adult. Brodart
Adult. Brodart
Subject: Young men Fiction
Jewish college students Fiction
Nineteen fifties Fiction
Antisemitism Fiction
Self-realization Fiction
New Jersey Fiction
Ohio Fiction
Young men Fiction
College students Fiction
Jews Fiction
Nineteen fifties Fiction
Antisemitism Fiction
Self-realization Fiction
New Jersey Fiction
Ohio Fiction
Historical fiction

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Blair County Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Altoona Area Public Library.

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Altoona Area Public Library ROT 1 (Text) 33240004091289 Adult Fiction Available -

Summary: Marcus Messner, the nineteen-year-old son of a Newark butcher, must learn to handle life on his own after he flees to Winesburg, Ohio, to attend college and even more to escape his father whose anxiety that Marcus could be sent to fight in the Korean War has made him suffocatingly overprotective.

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