| Indignation ought to be required reading for presidential candidates
Evening Standard
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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 pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio’s Winesburg College. And why is he here and not at a local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hardworking neighbourhood butcher seems to have gone mad – mad with fear and apprehension of the dangers of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangers he sees in the every corner for his beloved boy. So Marcus leaves and, far from home, has to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world.
Indignation is the story of a young man’s education in life’s terrifying chances and bizarre obstructions. It is a story of inexperience, foolishness, intellectual resistance, sexual discovery, courage and error, told with all the inventive energy and with Roth has at his command.
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| Indignation is, among its many pleasures, a controlled expression of wrath
Daily Telegraph
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| Indignation is, unquestionably, seriously “good” Roth
Meg Wolitzer The Times
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| A superbly realised novel
Spectator
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| Drivingly readable
New Statesman
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| 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
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| Once again, Roth defies all the rules of artistic decline and shows that this is a career still producing highlights
Metro
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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Vintage • Modern fiction • Previous
ISBN: 0099523426
Publication date: 06/08/2009 • 256 pages • B format • EAN: 9780099523420 |
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