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Indignation (Hardcover)

by Philip Roth (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 233 pages
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) (16 Sep 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 054705484X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0547054841
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13.2 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 760,069 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Review
'Once again, Roth defies all the rules of artistic decline and shows that this is a career still producing highlights' --Metro

Indignation is, among its many pleasures, a controlled expression of wrath --Daily Telegraph

It thrums with energy... altogether it is a brave, romantic, young man's book
--Literary Review

`Written with all the power, wit and grace of an early Roth novel'
--Kudos Magazine

`Philip Roth's thousandth novel (approximately), deserves an honourable mention...a plaintive and elegant book' --The Spectator

'Timely, powerful and intensely sad' --Sunday Telegraph

`an extraordinary, compact story'
--The Times

`A taut masterwork that resonates with all the skills of a veteran novelist on top form'
--Sunday Times

`brief, compelling and rather curious novel - a late-period oddity that requires more than one reading'
--Daily Telegraph --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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`drivingly readable'

`a gratifying novel in its won right ... Indignation is, unquestionably, seriously "good" Roth' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Roth - truly wonderful, 23 Sep 2008
This review is from: Indignation (Hardcover)
Some are suggesting that Roth has become too prolific, with the implication that quality begins to dip, but Indignation refutes that. This is a tightly written, evocative and moving novel. It's the story of Marcus Messner, a young man dealing with an overbearing father and the strangeness of moving away to college, set as America is fighting the Korean War. Messner is also dead and from this vantage point, he is reviewing his short life. Such a device can be clumsy or silly, but Roth employs it to incredible effect. The characters are all vivid and memorable (the scene between Messner and the dean of men is a wonderful example) and the narrative is beautifully structured.

At the denouement, when Roth's purpose comes into final focus, I was left with the feeling of having experienced something simple and wise and powerful. I can't recommend this novel highly enough.
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Messy Messner, 7 Oct 2008
By A reader (Los Angeles CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Indignation (Hardcover)
Philip Roth's new novel tells a story narrated by Marcus Messner, a Jewish butcher's son from Newark at college in the American Midwest during the Korean War. Marcus intends to work hard at his studies to avoid being drafted into the war, for fear of being killed. At college he has an unsettled time, not getting on with room-mates and having a short-lived affair with a troubled fellow student. Marcus's fall-outs with room-mates and then his girlfriend's mental breakdown bring him into conflict with the college dean.

Overall "Indignation" is about the protagonist's unwillingness to fit in with social conventions he doesn't accept - for instance, he's an atheist, but the college requires him to attend chapel weekly. A sexual ingenu, he's unable to cope with the complexities of an adult sexual relationship with his girlfriend.

If this description makes the novel sound slight, that's because it was my reaction to it. I thought this was insubstantial in comparison to Roth's better work - with large chunks of story skipped over, and an ending that's far less elliptical than it seems on first reading. But Roth is a first-rate writer, and it is a slick, easy read, though I'd also add that the story itself has the feel in places of being a messy first draft.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars American Kundera, 26 Sep 2008
By Daniele Sgaravatti (St Andrews, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Indignation (Hardcover)
I got this yesterday afternoon, I finished it this morning at four. It's simply great. It is, as the title of another review has it, a novel about "the way one's most banal, incidental, even comical choices achieve the most disproportionate result." In this respect it resembles Milan Kundera's best novels. But it also is a novel about a bunch of complex, realistic characters, and about an important piece of History of the 20th century, and even more about the sincere, intelligent, passionate, and yet frustrated efforts of the protagonist to understand all that: History, people, and the way our choices can influence them.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A Misconstrued Gem
'Indignation' is not a bad novel, but it's certainly a change in direction from the maudlin novellas we've been expecting from Philip Roth of late. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars exasperation
I struggled last year to swallow the premise of Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach; the depiction of a time when sex was still something barely discussed, and that the events of the... Read more
Published 8 months ago by William Rycroft

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Roth classic
The isn't, of course, the only Roth novel that will still be read in 50 years time, but its brevity and accessibility might make it one of the most popular. Read more
Published 8 months ago by William

5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece
Compelling & intensely affecting; angry & driven. A masterpiece from one of the world's great writers. Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars Phil Flops
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5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Roth - truly wonderful
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