Goodbye, Columbus
$37.01
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2006
Summary
Philip Roth’s debut novella and Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction
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 and fall into an affair that is as much about social class and suspicion as it is about love. The novella is accompanied by five short stories - sometimes iconoclastic, sometimes elegiac - that crackle with irreverent originality and display Roth’s …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099498155 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099498154 |
| Author: | Philip Roth |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Edition: | 06000th |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2006 |
| Weight: | 194g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Vintage Books |
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Critics Review
Startlingly, incandescently alive
Startlingly, incandescently alive * New Yorker *
Unlike those of us who come howling into the world, blind and bare, Mr Roth appears with nails, hair, teeth, speaking coherently. He is skilled, witty, energetic and performs like a virtuoso – Saul Bellow
A great novella - amazingly, this was Roth’s first book - about love, sex and growing up * Observer *
Opening the first page of any Philip Roth is like hearing the ignition on a boiler roar into life. Passion is what we’re going to get, and plenty of it * Guardian *
Philip Roth
Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on March 19, 1933, to second-generation Americans Bess and Herman. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighborhood his writing returned to time and again.
Roth received the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), but it was his fourth, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) which secured his reputation as one of America’s finest writers, and American Pastoral (1997) which won the Pulitzer Prize.
Roth wrote thirty-one books in all, winning the International Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice. He was presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.
Roth died aged eighty-five on May 22, 2018, six years after retiring from writing.
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