INDIGNATION

　　NATIONAL BESTSELLER In 1951, the second year of the KoreanWar, a studious, law-abiding, and intense youngster from Newark,New Jersey, Marcus Messner, begins his sophomore year on thepastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And whyis he there and not at a local college in Newark where heoriginally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hardworkingneighborhood butcher, seems to have gone mad-mad with fear andapprehension of the dangers of adult life, the dangers of theworld, the dangers he sees in every corner for his beloved boy. Farfrom Newark, Marcus has to find his way amid the customs andconstrictions of another American world. Indignation, Philip Roth'stwenty-ninth book, is a startling departure from the hauntednarratives of old age and experience in Roth's recent books and apowerful exploration of a remarkable moment in Americanhistory.

　　“In Indignation [Roth’s] power and intensity seem undiminished. . . Of all Roth's recent novels, it ventures farthest into theunknowable. In his unshowy way, with all his quotidianspecificity and merciless skepticism, Roth is attempting to stormheaven–an endeavor all the more desperately daring because he seemsdead certain it's not there.” –David Gates, The New YorkTimes Book Review
　　
　　“A triumph.” –USA Today
　　
　　“It is Roth's virtuoso skill to couple Marcus's companionablepleasure in part-time butchering with his nightmare that the kniveshe wields so dexterously will be used on himself.” –The BostonGlobe
　　
　　“As always, the prose is well built–sinewy and graceful–and, asalways, the wit is as sharp as a German knife. There are simply nonovels by Roth in which you cannot detect the hand of a master.”–O, The Oprah Magazine
　　
　　“Terrific . . . there's a lovely perplexedness to the writinghere.” –GQ
　　
　　“He is a master. And the short form serves the story: Theshocking rush from this book comes from watching Roth expertly andquickly build up to a half-dozen final pages that absolutelydeliver the kill.” –Entertainment Weekly
　　
　　“The interplay between a life just begun and ended, impulse andreflection, college high jinks and eternity is what makes itresonate.” – People, 4 out of 4 stars
　　
　　“Of how many writers can it be said that they're still producingsome of their best work well into their 70s? With [Indignation],his 24th novel, Philip Roth proves beyond any dispute that hedeserves to be counted in that select group.” –BookPage
　　
　　“Mr. Roth is a master magician who can make the same old rabbitsdo new tricks.” –The New YorkSun
　　
　　“Mesmerizing . . . Philip Roth’s intrepid novel ofself-revelation demands to be read in one sitting. It’s that good.It’s that audacious. It’s that compelling.” –Seattle Times
　　
　　“Roth, blending the bawdy exuberance of his early period and thedisenchantment of his recent work, demonstrates with subtlemastery, the 'incomprehensible way one's most banal, incidental,even comical choices achieve the most disproportionate result'.”–The New Yorker
　　
　　“As sharply honed as one of those butcher-shop knives that hauntMarcus's dreams . . . Hard to forget.” –Newsweek
　　
　　“A magnificent display of writerly talent: a lean, powerful novelwith bold characters who command attention, scenes of impressivedramatic interest and comic vitality, language that blasts thereader's cozy complacency . . . and a theme that swellsimperceptibly from a murmur to a satisfying roar . . . ReadIndignation–read it with a ear for the naked power of Philip Rothat full tilt.” –The New YorkObserver
　　
　　“Copies of Indignation, Philip Roth's ferocious little tale,ought to be handed out on college campuses along with condoms andtetanus shots . . . Here's a novel to be witnessed as an explosionfrom an author still angry enough to burn with adolescent rage andwise enough to understand how self-destructive that rage canbe.” –Washington Post Book World
　　
　　“Does anybody else writing prose today sustain a conversationwith the reader as beautifully as Roth, with his whirlwind ofshouts, whispers, riffs and exposition?. . . . Roth returns with‘Indignation’ and Virtuosity.” –Oscar Villalon, Books We Like,NPR
　　
　　“Indignation is a glorious act of chutzpah on the part ofarguably the most fearless American novelist working today.” –FortWorth Star-Telegram
　　
　　“It's that final twist of the knife that makes the book sopowerful, and leaves you feeling unstrung when you put it down.”–Bloomberg News
　　
　　“Roth balances the darkness with sharp, comic irony . . . InIndignation, Roth has reached back to Newark to breath new lifeinto all the old obsessions.” –Associated Press
　　
　　“Written in elegant, economical prose. . . . intenselypsychological. . . . utterly engrossing.” –Times LiterarySupplement (London)
　　
　　“A late masterpiece. . . . Indignation is Philip Roth's bestnovel since The Counterlife . . . Intricately wrought, passionateand fascinating.” –Financial Times (London)