Indignation - Hardcover

Roth, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224085131 ISBN 13: 9780224085137

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 2008

Synopsis

Shelf worn dust jacket has some fading to the spine, first UK printing. Shipped from the UK in recyclable card packaging.

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Review

Amazon Best of the Month, September 2008: Enter once again into the echo chamber of Philip Roth's memory and imagination. In the second year of the Korean War, a butcher's son--a straight-A student wound tight with aspiration--flees Newark and his father's increasingly unhinged fears for his safety. Heading midwest, he finds a strange collegiate land of fraternities, football heroes, V-neck pullover sweaters and white buckskin shoes, panty raids, and mandatory chapel services, and, most startlingly, a young woman with desires of her own. Like another fiction grandmaster of his generation, Alice Munro, Roth seems able to spin infinite surprising tales from a few familiar building blocks, and in Indignation, his 25th novel, he has constructed a taut, haunting (and, as always, funny) story that ranks among his best. Reading at times like a buttoned-down Portnoy's Complaint (if it's possible to imagine such a thing), Indignation records a series of small explosions against '50s propriety and the dire consequences they lead to, capturing the misery of desire amid repression, along with the greater terror of being trapped in endless, relentless memory. --Tom Nissley

Book Description

"Indignation is impossible to put down until it's finished. Then, it's impossible to shake off the aftermath of this mesmerizing story."

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224085131
• ISBN 13: 9780224085137
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256