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Indignation
  • Published: 1 October 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099523420
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $24.99

Indignation

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Now a major motion picture starring Sarah Gadon, Logan Lerman and Ben Rosenfield, and adapted for the screen by James Schamus

During the second year of the Korean War in 1951, studious, law-abiding Marcus Messner is beginning his sophomore year on the conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. Marcus has fled from his hometown of Newark, New jersey, trying to escape his father's oppressive love - a love that is also a mad fear of the dangers of adult life soon to face his son. Whilst at college, Marcus has to traverse an American world that isn't his own: facing off against ardent Christian, Dean Cauldwell, and falling in love with the beautiful Olivia Hutton. Indignation gleams with narrative muscle, as it twists and turns unpredictably, and extends - shockingly - beyond the confines of natural life.
  • Published: 1 October 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099523420
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Philip Roth

Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933, to second-generation Americans Bess and Herman. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood his writing returned to time and again. Roth received the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), but it was his fourth, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) which secured his reputation as one of America’s finest writers, and American Pastoral (1997) which won the Pulitzer Prize. Roth wrote thirty-one books in all, winning the International Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice. He was presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively. Roth died aged eighty-five on 22 May 2018, six years after retiring from writing.
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Praise for Indignation

Intricately wrought, passionate and fascinating... A late masterpiece

Financial Times

Roth reasserts his fictional mastery with a fine taut narrative about the frustrations of youth...every part of it is dovetailed into a story of compelling economy...a mid-20th-century tale of nemesis with all the intellectual and imaginative force of a great novelist writing at the height of his powers

Sunday Times

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

The Times

Indignation ought to be required reading for presidential candidates

Evening Standard

Indignation is, among its many pleasures, a controlled expression of wrath

Daily Telegraph

If I had to choose one word to sum up Indignation I'd go for classy. If were allowed two: very classy

Sunday Telegraph

Roth's novels abound in comic moments, and so does Indignation...His powerful new novel seethes with outrage...a deft, gripping, and deeply moving narrative

New York Review of Books

I relished Indignation. Roth writes with his trademark drive and fluency, on the knife blade between rage and laughter

Guardian

In Indignation, his power and intensity seem undiminished

New York Times

He is a writer of quite extraordinary skill and courage

London Review of Books