About this guide
The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group’s reading of Philip Roth’s American Pastoral. We hope they will open up new approaches to this explosive and viscerally moving novel by one of the most esteemed American writers of the twentieth century.
Seymour “Swede” Levov comes of age [...]
About this guide
The introduction, discussion questions, author biography, and suggested reading list that follow are designed to enhance your group’s reading of Philip Roth’s The Human Stain. We hope they will provide you with fruitful ways of thinking and talking about a novel that has been called “one of the most provocative explorations of race and rage in American literature.”*
It’s 1951, the Korean War is raging on and Marcus Messner, an intense, law-abiding student from Newark, New Jersey finds himself miles away from home on the conservative campus of Ohio’s Winesburg College. Just how did he end up there? Because of his need to escape his father—a hardworking man who seems to have gone mad with fear about the dangers of adult life that face his beloved boy around every corner. And, so, far from the comforts of Newark, Marcus must find his way, all while negotiating the customs of a wholly different side of America.
Indignation, Philip Roth’s twenty-ninth book, is a remarkable departure from the haunted narratives of old age and experience that we’ve come to expect from Roth and a powerful exploration of a remarkable moment in American history.
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