{"product_id":"indignation-a-novel-isbn-9780063499324","title":"Indignation: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Mesmerizing … Philip Roth’s intrepid novel of self-revelation demands to be read in one sitting. It’s that good. It’s that audacious. It’s that compelling.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“He is a master. And the short form serves the story: 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.\u003c\/b\u003e” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAgainst the backdrop of the Korean War, a young man faces life’s unimagined chances and terrifying consequences in his sophomore year far from home on the conservative campus of Ohio’s Winesburg College.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is 1951 in America. 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 there and not at the local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hard-working neighborhood 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 every corner for his beloved boy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the long-suffering, desperately harassed mother tells her son, the father’s fear arises from love and pride. Perhaps, but it produces too much anger in Marcus for him to endure living with his parents any longer. He leaves them and, far from Newark, in the midwestern college, has to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eIndignation\u003c\/em\u003e [Roth’s] power and intensity seem undiminished … Of all Roth’s 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 heaven—an endeavor all the more desperately daring because he seems dead certain it’s not there.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A triumph.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It is Roth’s virtuoso skill to couple Marcus’s companionable pleasure in part-time butchering with his nightmare that the knives he wields so dexterously will be used on himself.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“As always, the prose is well built—sinewy and graceful—and, 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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eO, the Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Terrific … there’s a lovely perplexedness to the writing here.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“He is a master. And the short form serves the story: 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.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Written in elegant, economical prose…. intensely psychological…. utterly engrossing.”\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A late masterpiece…. \u003cem\u003eIndignation \u003c\/em\u003eis Philip Roth’s best novel since \u003cem\u003eThe Counterlife … \u003c\/em\u003eIntricately wrought, passionate and fascinating.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A magnificent display of writerly talent: a lean, powerful novel with bold characters who command attention, scenes of impressive dramatic interest and comic vitality, language that blasts the reader’s cozy complacency … and a theme that swells imperceptibly from a murmur to a satisfying roar … Read \u003cem\u003eIndignation—\u003c\/em\u003eread it with a ear for the naked power of Philip Roth at full tilt.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Copies of \u003cem\u003eIndignation,\u003c\/em\u003e Philip Roth’s ferocious little tale, ought to be handed out on college campuses along with condoms and tetanus shots … Here’s 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.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Does anybody else writing prose today sustain a conversation with the reader as beautifully as Roth, with his whirlwind of shouts, whispers, riffs and exposition?…. Roth returns with ‘Indignation’ and Virtuosity.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNPR Books We Like\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eIndignation \u003c\/em\u003eis a glorious act of chutzpah on the part of arguably the most fearless American novelist working today.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFort Worth Star-Telegram\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It’s that final twist of the knife that makes the book so powerful, and leaves you feeling unstrung when you put it down.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBloomberg News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Roth balances the darkness with sharp, comic irony … In \u003cem\u003eIndignation\u003c\/em\u003e, Roth has reached back to Newark to breath new life into all the old obsessions.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAssociated Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The interplay between a life just begun and ended, impulse and reflection, college high jinks and eternity is what makes it resonate.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Of how many writers can it be said that they’re still producing some of their best work well into their 70s? With [\u003cem\u003eIndignation\u003c\/em\u003e], his 24th novel, Philip Roth proves beyond any dispute that he deserves to be counted in that select group.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Mr. Roth is a master magician who can make the same old rabbits do new tricks.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Mesmerizing … Philip Roth’s intrepid novel of self-revelation demands to be read in one sitting. It’s that good. It’s that audacious. It’s that compelling.”\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Roth, blending the bawdy exuberance of his early period and the disenchantment of his recent work, demonstrates with subtle mastery, the ‘incomprehensible way one’s most banal, incidental, even comical choices achieve the most disproportionate result’.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“As sharply honed as one of those butcher-shop knives that haunt Marcus’s dreams … Hard to forget.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48588013011173,"sku":"NP9780063499324","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/indignation-a-novel-isbn-9780063499324","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}