The next meeting of the Jewish Book Club is to be on Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 at 8:00 pm
(NOTE SLIGHTLY LATER START TIME) at the home of Phyll and Ed Mendelsohn.

The Book: Indignation by Philip Roth

Paperback: 256 pp
Publisher: Vintage (6 Aug 2009)
ISBN-13: 978-1905005956

Against the backdrop of the Korean War, a young man faces life’s unimagined chances and
terrifying consequences.

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. And why is he there and not at the
local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hard-working
neighborhood butcher, seems to have gone mad -- mad with fear and apprehension of the dangers
of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangers he sees in every corner for his beloved boy.

As the long-suffering, desperately harassed mother tells her son, the father’s fear arises from love
and pride. Perhaps, but it produces too much anger in Marcus for him to endure living with his
parents any longer. He leaves them and, far from Newark, in the midwestern college, has to find his
way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world.

Indignation, Philip Roth’s twenty-ninth book, is a story of inexperience, foolishness, intellectual
resistance, sexual discovery, courage, and error. It is a story told with all the inventive energy and
wit Roth has at his command, at once a startling departure from the haunted narratives of old age
and experience in his recent books and a powerful addition to his investigations of the impact of
American history on the life of the vulnerable individual. (Barnes&Noble bn.com)

Happy reading!

Byron Simmonds
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Maureen Leveton
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JOIN THE CLUB!

Book clubs are a great idea at any time. First of all you get to read a book.

We hate to admit it, but in the case of the Jewish Book Club, even reading the book is not
obligatory. Although it does help.

The Jewish Book Club meets once every six weeks or thereabouts. Meetings are relaxed. Nothing
too serious. In fact, nothing serious at all. It's all about getting out and having a friendly chat. And
maybe, every so often, offering your home for a meeting (also, not obligatory)

So, give it a go. We are waiting to hear from you.

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— Byron Simmonds, Maureen Leveton