Indignation.

ROTH, Philip [John Barth].

$75.00

Item Number: 144685

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008.

First edition of Roth’s twenty-ninth book. Octavo, original boards. From the library of fellow novelist John Barth, with his signature to the half-title page. Barth won the National Book Award in fiction for his novel Chimera. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser.

“In Indignation [Roth’s] power and intensity seem undiminished . . . 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).