- Fiction, Antisemitism, Jewish college students, Nineteen fifties
A dazzling new novel from a modern master of the form.It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College.
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- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Philip Roth
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 233
- Publisher
- Hanser, Random House Large Print, Vintage Books
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- German, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780547345307
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Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection *Goodbye, Columbus,* which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller *Portnoy's Complaint.* Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictio
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