Indignation, Philip Roth
Indignation, Philip Roth
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Indignation

Author: Philip Roth

Narrator: Ray Chase

Unabridged: 4 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2016

Synopsis

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 amid the customs and constrictions of another American world.Indignation, 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.

About Philip Roth

Philip Roth (1933–2018) was one of the most decorated writers in American history, having won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award twice, the PEN/Faulkner Award three times, the National Book Award, and many more. He also won the Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union and in the same year received the National Medal of Arts at the White House. In 2001 he received the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, given every six years “for the entire work of the recipient.”

About Ray Chase

Ray Chase graduated from the University of Southern California with a BA in theater and a minor in cinema and television. He has since worked extensively as a voice-over artist. Among his dozens of audiobook narrations are Ian Douglas’ Heritage trilogy and Robert Olen Butler’s Christopher Marlowe Cobb thrillers.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Valeriu

Philip Roth rămîne întotdeauna egal cu el însuși, ușor recognoscibil, ingenios, ironic, amintindu-ne întrebările mari ale vieții și obligîndu-ne să răspundem la ele. Iată un adevăr și un îndemn: Indignarea nu-i bună la nimic. În acest roman, un tînăr moare fiindcă nu găsește ceva mai bun de făcut de......more

Goodreads review by Lawyer

INDIGNATION,the novel, and an opinion regarding literary criticism Philip Roth's twenty-ninth book "Indignation" is one of those novels about which some critics are a bit, well, indignant. They're indignant that Roth didn't produce another masterpiece of the same degree as "American Pastoral," "The H......more

Quotes

“There are simply no novels by Roth in which you cannot detect the hand of a master.” O, The Oprah Magazine

“A triumph.” USA Today

“Roth…demonstrates with subtle mastery the incomprehensible way one’s most banal, incidental, even comical choices achieve the most disproportionate result.” New Yorker

“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.” Seattle Times

“A late masterpiece…Indignation is Philip Roth’s best novel since The Counterlife.” Financial Times (London)

“Brilliant and disconcerting…The terrible sadness of Marcus’ life is rendered palpable by Roth’s fierce grasp on the psychology of this butcher’s boy, down to his bought-for-Winesburg wardrobe. It’s a melancholy triumph and a cogent reflection on society in a time of war.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Provocative…Fast-paced, compassionate, humorous, historically conscious.” Booklist (starred review)

“The book has a taut, elegant symmetry…A twist in narrative perspective reinforces this novel’s timelessness.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“A meditation on love, death, and madness…Roth’s new novel combines the comic absurdity of his early novels like Portnoy’s Complaint with the pathos of his later novels like Everyman and Exit Ghost.” Library Journal

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