The novella is accompanied by five short stories that range in tone from the iconoclastic to the astonishingly tender and that illuminate the subterranean conflicts between parents and children and friends and neighbors in the American Jewish diaspora. Philip Roth first achieved fame with Goodbye, Columbus (1959), which consisted of a novella and five short stories and described the life of a of Jewish middle. Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills, who meet one summer break and dive into an affair that is as much about social class and suspicion as it is about love. Here for the first time in an authoritative two-volume readers edition are the fresh social observations contained within Roths six books: Goodbye Columbus.
A number of his essays, interviews, and autobiographical pieces. Goodbye, Columbus: and Five Short Stories by Philip Roth ISBN 13: 9780679748267 ISBN 10: 0679748261 Paperback New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, ISBN-13: 978-0679748267 In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. Winner of the National Book Award in 1960, Roth's award-winning first book instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion for even the most self-deluding of his characters. Five of Philip Roth’s short stories are collected along with his novella Goodbye, Columbus in a volume bearing that title (1959). Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent conditionl Dust jacket now housed in a new HD brodart jacket protector. Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories by Philip RothįACSIMILE OF THE FIRST PRINTING HOUGHTON MIFFLIN īeautiful unread facsimile, identical to the true first printing.
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