The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up

The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up
First edition
AuthorJacob M. Appel
LanguageEnglish
PublisherCargo Publishing
Publication date2012[a]
Publication placeGlasgow, Scotland
Pages300[b]
ISBN978-1-908885-11-1
OCLC820112199
Dewey Decimal813.6[16]
LC ClassPS3601.P662 M36 2012[16]

The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up is a 2012 satirical[9] 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the novel."[8] In 2012, it won the Dundee International Book Prize, one of the UK's most lucrative prizes for an unpublished debut novel,[20] and was published by Cargo Publishing.[9]

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"[c] 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."[11]

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Notes

  1. ↑ Publication dates: Note that many of those bookseller pages providing early publication dates also list the shorter page counts not verified to exist in published editions. A publishing deal was part of the award from the Dundee International Book Prize announced on 25 October 2012.[8][9] Reviews were published on 18 November 2012,[10] 27 November 2012,[11] January 2013,[12] 18 January 2013,[13] 1 February 2013,[14] and March 2013[15]
  2. ↑ Sources disagree: 212[4][5] or 216[1][2] or 300[13][15][16][17] or 384.[18] One printed edition of 978-1-908885-11-1 had 300.[19] Perhaps the unpublished edition submitted to the Dundee Prize was shorter.
  3. ↑ Some British sources incorrectly state that the song was the United States national anthem, likely presuming that "God Bless America" is the American national anthem due to the similarly titled UK national anthem, "God Save the Queen". "God Bless America" has never been the national anthem, which is "The Star-Spangled Banner". The Star-Spangled Banner is performed before every Major League Baseball game, never during the seventh-inning stretch. Following the September 11 attacks, "God Bless America" was frequently sung during the seventh-inning stretch, and appears in this context in the novel.[21]

References

  1. 1 2 "The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up Paperback – 23 Oct. 2012 : 1908885114". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 20 April 2026.
  2. 1 2 "Waterstones". Retrieved 20 April 2026.
  3. ↑ "The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up by Appel, Jacob M. ( AUTHOR ) Oct-27-2012 Paperback : B00BOYBIZW". Amazon.com. Retrieved 20 April 2026.
  4. 1 2 "The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up (New)". Awesome Books. Retrieved 20 April 2026.
  5. 1 2 "Hannah's Books". Retrieved 20 April 2026.
  6. ↑ "News of Previous Contributors". Prairie Schooner. 87 (3): 172–174. 2013. JSTOR 24640120.
  7. ↑ Laurant, Darrell; Appel, Jacob M. (13 June 2017). "The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up". Snowflakes in a Blizzard (Interview). Retrieved 20 April 2026.
  8. 1 2 Jacob M Appel named as Dundee International Book Prize winner, The Courier, 26 October 2012.
  9. 1 2 3 Dundee International Book Prize won by Jacob M Appel, BBC News, 26 October 2012.
  10. ↑ Adair, Tom (18 November 2012). "Book review: The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up, Jacob Appel". The Scotsman. Retrieved 20 April 2026.
  11. 1 2 Donoghue, Steve (27 November 2012). "Book Review: The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up". Open Letters Monthly. Retrieved 20 April 2026. Also available from SteveDonoghue.com
  12. ↑ Bethany, Susan (January 2013). "Bethany's Bookshelf". Midwest Book Review. Vol. 13, no. 1. Retrieved 20 April 2026.
  13. 1 2 Carter, Trina (18 January 2013). "Review of The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up". Foreword Reviews. Retrieved 20 April 2026.
  14. ↑ Cross, Louisa (1 February 2013). "The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up". DURA – Dundee Review of the Arts (DURA). Retrieved 20 April 2026.
  15. 1 2 Ponepinto, Joe (2 March 2013). "The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up". The Los Angeles Review (Book review). Archived from the original on 29 March 2013. Retrieved 20 April 2026.
  16. 1 2 3 LCCN 2012-286468 Retrieved 20 April 2026.
  17. ↑ "OCLC record 820112199". Worldcat. Retrieved 20 April 2026.
  18. ↑ "The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up Paperback – September 1, 2014 : 1908885114". Amazon.com. Retrieved 20 April 2026.
  19. ↑ Appel, Jacob M. The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up. Glasgow: Cargo Publishing. p. 300. ISBN 978-1-908885-11-1.
  20. ↑ Charlotte Runcie, Unpublished author impresses panel featuring Stephen Fry and Philip Pullman. The List, 19 November 2012.
  21. ↑ Appel, Jacob M. The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up. Glasgow: Cargo Publishing. ISBN 978-1-908885-11-1. p. 10: When the break [seventh-inning stretch] finally arrived, American flags appeared on the video screens. The public address system paid tribute to two Bronx soldiers killed in the line of duty. 'Please rise and join us,' the announcer said, 'in singing God Bless America.
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