The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up

The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up
First edition
AuthorJacob M. Appel
LanguageEnglish
Published2012 (Cargo)
Publication placeScotland

The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up is a 2012 satirical[1] novel by the American writer Jacob M. Appel. It was the winner of the 2013 International Rubery Book Award. "Shortly after the attacks of September 11, 2001, in the United States," the author explained, "I knew I wanted to write a book against the backlash of those events. It took me three years to complete…. At the time, I did not think it would take me another eight years to find a publisher. I came close many times, but American publishers appeared to fear the political content of the work and several of them admitted this candidly or even asked me to 'sanitize' the novel."[2] In 2012, it won the Dundee International Book Prize, one of the UK's most lucrative prizes for an unpublished debut novel,[3] and was published by Cargo Publishing.[1]

The title refers to the protagonist, a middle-aged botanist named Arnold Brinkman, who takes his nephew to Yankee Stadium for a baseball game. During the seventh-inning stretch, fans are asked to rise for the singing of "God Bless America"[Notes 1] in honor of two Bronx soldiers killed in the line of duty. Arnold remains seated. "When the stadium cameras inevitably find him," wrote reviewer Steve Donoghue, "and put his picture up on the jumbo-tron for the fans and all the home viewers to see, Arnold does the unforgivable: he sticks out his tongue."[4]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ See Talk Page for clarification of which song the man wouldn't stand for.

References

  1. ^ a b Dundee International Book Prize won by Jacob M Appel, BBC News, 26 October 2012.
  2. ^ Jacob M Appel named as Dundee International Book Prize winner, The Courier, 26 October 2012.
  3. ^ Charlotte Runcie, Unpublished author impresses panel featuring Stephen Fry and Philip Pullman. The List, 19 November 2012.
  4. ^ Book Review: The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up Archived 24 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Open Letters Monthly, 27 November 2012.


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