- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9781407013343
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 256
Indignation
- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9781407013343
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 256
Philip Roth's best novel since The Counterlife. In that long meantime the author has published many fine works... but none as intricately wrought, passionate and fascinating as this one... a late masterpiece
John Banville, Financial Times
Roth] reasserts his fictional mastery with a fine taut narrative about the frustrations of youth ... As grippingly streamlined as Greek drama, Roth's 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
Sunday Times
Indignation is, unquestionably, seriously "good" Roth
Meg Wolitzer, The Times
Drivingly readable
New Statesman
Indignation ought to be required reading for presidential candidates
Evening Standard
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
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
Tibor Fischer, Sunday Telegraph
Once again, Roth defies all the rules of artistic decline and shows that this is a career still producing highlights
Metro
A superbly realised novel
Spectator
Philip Roth's novels are becoming increasingly succinct and focused. It's as if he is sharpening his ideas to even steelier points, each book now so finely honed it will find its way to the heart like an arrow to a bull's-eye
Herald
Roth at his best - and Indignation is very close to it - can persuade any reader to suspend disbelief and be suctioned into the inexorable momentum of his story. His eye for detail is unerring...Indignation ought to be made required reading for all future presidential candidates
Scotsman on Sunday
As dazzlingly brilliant as any of his older dazzlingly brilliant efforts...this short novel has laughs, loves, abject misery, blowjobs in parked cars and projectile vomiting all over the place. If that's not what you want out of a novel then we don't know what's wrong with you
Dazed & Confused
The latest novel from the unstoppable Roth is a tricksily narrated, unsettling portrait of adult neurosis and youthful uncertainty, set against the backdrop of the Korean War
Metro
Brilliantly conceived and executed
Chris Ross, Guardian
Trademark scenes of sexual craving punctuate an incisive analysis of American society in the early 1950s
Michael Englard, Observer
Required reading, if only for its flashes of Roth's trademark, wrathful fluency
Edward McGown, Telegraph
Quietly compelling
Sunday Telegraph
This angry story of an angry young man, beautifully and simply told, is not easy to forget
Lesley McDowell, Independent on Sunday
Thrilling...As grippingly streamlined as Greek drama, Roth's mid-20th-century tale of nemesis shows all the force of a great novelist writing at the height of his powers
Peter Kemp, The Sunday Times
This is a great book for several reasons...As with other Roth novels, there are narrative innovations, and here they work well
The Times
Told with the striking clarity of which Roth is a master
Emily Firetog, Irish Times
Terrific
William Leith, Evening Standard
As usual he's brilliant at drawing you into feeling his protagonist's outrage
Colin Waters, Sunday Herald
Marcus Messner is the classic Roth hero - brilliant, introspective, intense, horny, and a Jewish son of Newark, New Jersey ... Terrific
Johanna Thomas-Corr, Scotsman
Tart and seductive, Roth's coming-of-age tale matures into a howl of indignation...Marcus' adolescent dilemmas ratchet up the already over-stretched relationships binding his family, which Roth presents with characteristic moral gravity braced by guilt and inexperience, wrapping it all in a subtle literary device that sharply accentuates the manifold horrors of war
James Urquhart, Financial Times
I loved this...it was a strange and troubling read, but brilliantly written
Elle