Indignation [Signed First Edition]

Philip Roth

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008

054705484X / 9780547054841

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First edition, 1st printing. Signed by Philip Roth on publisher's tipped-in page. 233pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. "It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. 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. [] As 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. [] INDIGNATION, Philip Roth's twenty-ninth book, is a story of inexperience, foolishness, intellectual resistance, sexual discovery, courage, and error. It is a story told with all the inventive energy and wit Roth has at his command, at once a startling departure from the haunted narratives of old age and experience in his recent books and a powerful addition to his investigations of the impact of American history on the life of the vulnerable individual." [jacket copy] "Roth has been burning up the track for well over a decade now . . . and in INDIGNATION his power and intensity seem undiminished. Roth's secret, I think, is his supreme confidence as a storyteller--and, paradoxically, a supreme humility. 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."--David Gates, The New York Times Book Review. "In a departure from Roth's recent meditations on age, his new novel revisits the no less sexually frustrating experience of growing up. We are back in nineteen-fifties Newark, and nineteen-year-old Marcus Messner, the son of a kosher butcher, attempts to escape his father's stifling influence by enrolling at a college in Ohio farm country. Messner is a scholarly type, while his new classmates are an unfriendly bunch of churchgoing, beer-swilling louts. Stubbornly disregarding overtures of friendship from members of the school's only Jewish fraternity, Messner devotes his attentions to a troubled Gentile named Olivia Hutton. There's something of Portnoy in the masturbation-filled high jinks that follow, but Messner, fearful that he might wind up a rifleman in Korea, is a far darker creation. 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."--The New Yorker. Handy & pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in an intact-as-new jacket. Quite presentable & collectible.…

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Titolo
Indignation [Signed First Edition]
Autore
Philip Roth
Editore
Houghton Mifflin Company
Anno di pubblicazione
2008
Condizione
As New
Sovraccoperta
As New
Firmato
Signed by Author(s)
Rilegatura
Hardcover
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
054705484X
ISBN 13
9780547054841
Edizione
1st Edition

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