New York: Houghton Mifflin. As New in As New dust jacket. 2008. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 054705484X . An impeccable first edition, first printing in As New condition in alike dust jacket. This copy has been SIGNED by AUTHOR Philip Roth on the title page versus a tipped in page like the more common copies; Indignation is Philip Roth's twenty-ninth book and, against the backdrop of the Korean War in 1951, tells the story of Marcus Messner and his education in life's terrifying chances and bizarre obstructions; 8vo; Signed by Author .

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In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral . In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004.” Recently Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. Roth is the only living American novelist to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize.

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Bookseller: Books Tell You Why, Inc. (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 14390
Title: Indignation - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Author: Roth, Philip
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: New As New in As New dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
ISBN 10: 054705484X
ISBN 13: 9780547054841
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2008
Keywords: Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print
Bookseller catalogs: Legendary Authors / Roth, Philip;

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