The most scandalous book of the year and probably the decade.

The most outrageously funny book about sex yet written

A hysterically funny monologue which has already added a new prototype to American literature... Anyone who can recall anything of the awesome mystery and humiliating farce of growing up will find this book compulsive reading. And it is blessedly, extremely funny

Philip Roth's gift for fantasy, his superb dialogue, his ability to evoke places and atmospheres, make Portnoy's Complaint at once hilariously, scabrously funny and deeply moving

Alexander Portnoy is a great comic character. He is going to be for many readers what his mother was for him: The Most Unforgettable Character I've Met

A gratifying novel... Indignation is, unquestionably, seriously "good" Roth

Roth's novels abound in comic moments, and so does Indignation...His powerful new novel seethes with outrage...a deft, gripping, and deeply moving narrative

Indignation ought to be required reading for presidential candidates

Indignation is, among its many pleasures, a controlled expression of wrath

If I had to choose one word to sum up Indignation I'd go for classy. If were allowed two: very classy

Consummately elegant

He writes perceptively about the shift from self-absorbed teenager to adult.

If all works of fiction were as thoughtful, as subtle, as well constructed and as funny as Metroland there would be no more talk of the death of the novel

It's one of the best accounts of clever English schoolboyhood I've read

Irony and imagery are deployed with a finesse even Flaubert wouldn't wince at...consummately elegant