Philip Roth - Indignation (Vintage International)

Praise forIndignation

A gratifying novel Indignation is, unquestionably, seriously good Roth.

Meg Wolitzer, The Times

[Roth] still towers above just about every living English-language author.

Toronto Star

Roths secret is his supreme confidence as a story-tellerand paradoxically, a supreme humility Of all Roths recent novels, it ventures farthest into the unknowable. In his unshowy way, with all his quotidian specificity and merciless skepticism, Roth is attempting to storm heavenan endeavor all the more desperately daring because he seems dead certain its not there.

The New York Times Book Review

We can see again his shocking ability to bring history to bear on the present. As always, the prose is well builtsinewy and gracefuland, as always, the wit is as sharp as a German knife. There are simply no novels by Roth in which you cannot detect the hand of a master.

O, The Oprah Magazine

The implacable face of history broods menacingly over everything else.

The Globe and Mail

Seethes with outrage A deft, gripping, and deeply moving narrative.

The New York Review of Books

A fine taut narrative about the frustrations of youth [A] potent blend of sharp-eyed nostalgia, biting cogency and engrossing social, psychological and moral complexity As grippingly streamlined as Greek drama, Roths mid-20th-century tale of nemesis transmits it again, brilliantly renewed with all the intellectual and imaginative force of a great novelist writing at the height of his powers.

The Sunday Times (UK)

Roths ferocious little tale ought to be handed out on college campuses Heres a novel to be witnessed as an explosion from an author still angry enough to burn with adolescent rage and wise enough to understand how self-destructive that rage can be.

The Washington Post

The interplay between a life just begun and ended, impulse and reflection, college high jinks and eternity is what makes it resonate. Four stars.

People

[Indignation] reads, in short, like Roth making a quick star turn with many of the elements we have come to expect from him over the years.

Chicago Tribune

It is Roths virtuoso skill to couple Marcuss companionable pleasure in part-time butchering with his nightmare that the knives he wields so dexterously will be used on himself [Roths reasons] are at once insane, plausible, and disastrous.

The Boston Globe

Demands to be read in one sitting. Its that good. Its that audacious. Its that compelling Indignation is impossible to put down until its finished. Then, its impossible to shake off the aftermath of this mesmerizing story.

The Seattle Times

A magnificent display of writerly talent: a lean, powerful novel with bold characters who command attention; scenes of impressive dramatic intensity and comic vitality; language that blasts the readers cozy complacency (its not called Indignation for nothing); and a theme that swells imperceptibly from a murmur to a satisfying roar.

The New York Observer

Roths prose is brilliantly engaging, the narrative engrossing and the limning of the characters masterful Indignation provides breathless, eye-opening reading. It is a vital burlesque of youth and the waste of war it is among the finest writing about post-World War II America.

Canadian Jewish News

Roth makes everything snap together, almost like a great short story. The brief final sectionjust a few pages long masterfully sews together all the images and themes of the book In Indignation Roth has reached back to Newark to breathe new life into all the old obsessions.

The Daily Gleaner

Roth, blending the bawdy exuberance of his early period and the disenchantment of his recent work, demonstrates with subtle mastery the incomprehensible way ones most banal, incidental, even comical choices achieve the most disproportionate result.

The New Yorker

Blistering [Roth] is a master The shocking rush from this book comes from watching Roth expertly and quickly build up to a half-dozen final pages that absolutely deliver the kill.

Entertainment Weekly

This is a Philip Roth novel and a morbid, ironic surprise or two should be expected. It does not spoil the crisp dialogue, the rush of emotion, the assured storytelling.

Winnipeg Free Press

Intricately wrought, passionate and fascinating [A] masterpiece.

Financial Times

A relevant and well-judged consideration of how national orthodoxy can have dire personal implications (particularly at a time of war) Indignation is, among its many pleasures, a controlled expression of wrath.

The Telegraph

A superbly realised novel, which begins with the lighthearted tone of a coming-of-age tale, before unleashing a devastating narrative about dying and the pain of being forever separated from those you love.

The Spectator (UK)

Beneath the engines of his rage, Roth cannot suppress his fierce love for the innocentfor Marcus on his road to destruction for America itself, still innocent enough to dream of a better tomorrow. Indignation ought to be required reading for presidential candidates.

Evening Standard

PENGUIN CANADA

INDIGNATION

In 1997 PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, and Saul Bellow, among others. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians Award for the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 20032004.

Recently Roth received PENs two most prestigious prizes: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award for a body of work of enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship and in 2007 the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American Fiction, given to a writer whose scale of achievement over a sustained career places him or her in the highest rank of American literature.

Roth is the only living writer to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. The last of the eight volumes is scheduled for publication in 2013.

BOOKS BY PHILIP ROTH

ZUCKERMAN BOOKS

The Ghost Writer

Zuckerman Unbound

The Anatomy Lesson

The Prague Orgy

The Counterlife

American Pastoral

I Married a Communist

The Human Stain

Exit Ghost

ROTH BOOKS

The Facts Deception

Patrimony Operation Shylock

The Plot Against America

KEPESH BOOKS

The Breast

The Professor of Desire

The Dying Animal

MISCELLANY

Reading Myself and Others Shop Talk

OTHER BOOKS

Goodbye, Columbus Letting Go

When She Was Good Portnoys Complaint Our Gang

The Great American Novel My Life as a Man

Sabbaths Theater Everyman

Indignation

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