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Marcus does not attend the Newark college he first enrolled in because his father, a hard-working local butcher, seems to have gone mad. Mad with fears about adulthood, the dangers lurking in the world, the danger he sees in his beloved son. As the tormented, already abused mother tells her son, the father's fear stems from love and pride. That may be true, but Marcus is growing so angry that he can no longer bear to live with his parents. Far from Newark, at a Midwestern college, he must find his way among the customs and constraints of a different American world. Indignation, Philip Roth's twenty-ninth novel, tells the story of the education of a young man whose possibilities are daunting and the forces that hold him back bizarre. It is a story of inexperience, frivolity, intellectual resistance, sexual discovery, daring, and mistakes. In a departure from the bleak narratives of adulthood and experience found in his later books, Roth has harnessed all his inventiveness and acumen to explore the impact of American history on a sensitive individual.