{"product_id":"indignation-isbn-9780307388919","title":"Indignation","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral \u003c\/i\u003ecomes a “mesmerizing [novel that] demands to be read in one sitting. It’s that good” (\u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e). A young man begins his sophomore year far from home on the conservative campus of Ohio’s Winesburg College, where he must navigate the customs and constrictions of another America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 1951, the second year of the Korean War, a studious, law-abiding, and intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, begins his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at a local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hardworking 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. Far from Newark, Marcus has to find his way in this other American world.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndignation,\u003c\/i\u003e Philip Roth's twenty-ninth book, is a startling departure from the haunted narratives of old age and experience in Roth’s recent books and a powerful exploration of a remarkable moment in American history.“In \u003ci\u003eIndignation\u003c\/i\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 —David Gates, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A triumph.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eUSA  Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Terrific ... there's a lovely perplexedness to the writing  here.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\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, 4 out of 4 stars \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Of how many  writers can it be said that they're still producing some of their best work well  into their 70s? With [\u003ci\u003eIndignation\u003c\/i\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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mr. Roth  is a master magician who can make the same old rabbits do new tricks.”\u003cb\u003e —\u003ci\u003eThe New  York Sun     \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.”\u003cb\u003e —\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\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'.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e —The New Yorker \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 \u003ci\u003eIndignation—\u003c\/i\u003eread it with  a ear for the naked power of Philip Roth at full tilt.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Observer   \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Copies of \u003ci\u003eIndignation,\u003c\/i\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—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWashington  Post Book World \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\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—Oscar Villalon,  Books We Like, NPR \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eIndignation \u003c\/i\u003eis a glorious act of chutzpah on the part of arguably  the most fearless American novelist working today.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFort Worth Star-Telegram\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\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—Bloomberg News \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Roth balances the darkness with  sharp, comic irony ... In \u003ci\u003eIndignation\u003c\/i\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Written in elegant, economical  prose.... intensely psychological.... utterly engrossing.”\u003cb\u003e —\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary  Supplement \u003c\/i\u003e(London)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A late masterpiece.... \u003ci\u003eIndignation \u003c\/i\u003eis Philip Roth's best  novel since \u003ci\u003eThe Counterlife ... \u003c\/i\u003eIntricately wrought, passionate and fascinating.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003c\/b\u003ePHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAcademy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHe twice won the National Book Award and the National\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBook Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN\/Faulkner\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAward three times. In 2005 \u003ci\u003eThe Plot Against America \u003c\/i\u003ereceived\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ehistorical novel on an American theme for 2003–2004.”\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eRoth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ein 2006 the PEN\/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN\/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eMedal at the White House, and was later named the fourth\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003erecipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018.Under Morphine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e About two and a half months after the well-trained divisions of  North Korea, armed by the Soviets and Chinese Communists, crossed the 38th parallel  into South Korea on June 25, 1950, and the agonies of the Korean War began, I entered  Robert Treat, a small college in downtown Newark named for the city's seventeenth-century  founder. I was the first member of our family to seek a higher education. None of  my cousins had gone beyond high school, and neither my father nor his three brothers  had finished elementary school. \"I worked for money,\" my father told me, \"since I  was ten years old.\" He was a neighborhood butcher for whom I'd delivered orders on  my bicycle all through high school, except during baseball season and on the afternoons  when I had to attend interschool matches as a member of the debating team. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlmost  from the day that I left the store–where I'd been working sixty-hour weeks for him  between the time of my high school graduation in January and the start of college  in September–almost from the day that I began classes at Robert Treat, my father  became frightened that I would die. Maybe his fear had something to do with the war,  which the U.S. armed forces, under United Nations auspices, had immediately entered  to bolster the efforts of the ill-trained and under-equipped South Korean army; maybe  it had something to do with the heavy casualties our troops were sustaining against  the Communist firepower and his fear that if the conflict dragged on as long as World  War Two had, I would be drafted into the army to fight and die on the Korean battlefield  as my cousins Abe and Dave had died during World War Two. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOr maybe the fear had to  do with his financial worries: the year before, the neighborhood's first supermarket  had opened only a few blocks from our family's kosher butcher shop, and sales had  begun steadily falling off, in part because of the supermarket's meat and poultry  section's undercutting my father's prices and in part because of a general postwar  decline in the number of families bothering to maintain kosher households and to  buy kosher meat and chickens from a rabbinically certified shop whose owner was a  member of the Federation of Kosher Butchers of New Jersey. Or maybe his fear for  me began in fear for himself, for at the age of fifty, after enjoying a lifetime  of robust good health, this sturdy little man began to develop the persistent racking  cough that, troubling as it was to my mother, did not stop him from keeping a lit  cigarette in the corner of his mouth all day long. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhatever the cause or mix of causes  fueling the abrupt change in his previously benign paternal behavior, he manifested  his fear by hounding me day and night about my whereabouts. Where were you? Why weren't  you home? How do I know where you are when you go out? You are a boy with a magnificent  future before you–how do I know you're not going to places where you can get yourself  killed?","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303182487781,"sku":"NP9780307388919","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780307388919.jpg?v=1767730026","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/indignation-isbn-9780307388919","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}