Philip Roth, who has won just about every literary award there is, recently published a novel of post-war America, Indignation. The book, only 256 pages long, follows Marcus Messner of Newark, New Jersey as he transfers colleges to bucolic Ohio in an attempt to free himself of his father's obsessive worrying. Marcus loses his innocence and so much more through an unfortunate combination of bullheadedness and haplessness. I very much enjoyed Indignation and can recommend it heartily along with Roth's My Life as a Man. I have yet to read the Pulitzer Prize winning American Pastoral or the intriguing Plot Against America, but they are certainly on my list.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
The Latest from Philip Roth
Philip Roth, who has won just about every literary award there is, recently published a novel of post-war America, Indignation. The book, only 256 pages long, follows Marcus Messner of Newark, New Jersey as he transfers colleges to bucolic Ohio in an attempt to free himself of his father's obsessive worrying. Marcus loses his innocence and so much more through an unfortunate combination of bullheadedness and haplessness. I very much enjoyed Indignation and can recommend it heartily along with Roth's My Life as a Man. I have yet to read the Pulitzer Prize winning American Pastoral or the intriguing Plot Against America, but they are certainly on my list.
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