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Indignation by Philip Roth - Review

Indignation by Philip Roth
Copies of “Indignation,” Philip Roth’s ferocious little tale, ought to be handed out on college campuses along with condoms and tetanus shots. This cathartic story might vent some of the volatile self-righteousness that can consume the lives of passionate young people (and, yes, old people too). It’s not that it breaks any [...]

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Indignation by Philip Roth - Review

Indignation by Philip Roth
Indignation is a novel full of over-pitched emotion. And blood. It includes frustrated (and occasionally — but no less helpfully — fully … discharged) sexual desire, a suicide attempt, a violent death, some broken bones, a nervous breakdown, vomiting, the release — and the traces, lots and lots of traces — of [...]

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