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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... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Marcus Messner: the butcher's son.
- Olivia: A beautiful coed who is a tortured soul.
- Dean Caudwell: Add a description of this character.
- Sonny
- Flusser
- Elwyn
- Musser
- Bertrand Russell
- Dr. Donehower
- Eddie
- Lentz
- Jenkins
- Dr. Hutton
- Big Mendelson
Quotes edit
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“(...) and thus have postponed learning what his uneducated father had been trying so hard to teach him all along: of the terrible, the incomprehensible way one's most banal, incidental, even comical choices achieve the most disproportionate result.”
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“Do you think that, if you were granted omnipotence and omniscience and millions of years in which to perfect your world, you could produce nothing better than the Ku Klux Klan or the Fascists?”
narrator (mis)quoting Bertrand Russell
Setting & Locations edit
First Sentence edit
About two and a half months after the well-trained divisions of North Korea, armed by the soviets and Chinese Communists, crossed the 38th parellel into South Korea on June 25, 1950, and the agonies of the Korean War began, I entered Robert Treat, a small college in downtown Newark named for the city's seventeenth-century founder.
Table of Contents edit
Under Morphine
Out from Under
Historical Note
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Nemeses: Short Novels. (standard series)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Philip Roth (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Country: United States
Publication Date: September 16, 2008
ISBN: 9780547054841
Page Count: 233
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Country: United States
Publication Date: September 16, 2008
ISBN: 9780547054841
Page Count: 233
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3568 .O855 I53
- Dewey: 813.54
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