Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth
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.
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.
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.
About the Author
In 1997, PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003–2004”. Recently Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious prizes: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. Roth is the only living American writer to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America.
Format: Paperback | 320 pages
Dimensions (cm): 20.3 x 13.2 x 1.7 | 246g
Publication Date: Sep 1993
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Vintage Books
Publication City/Country: New York, United States
Language: English
Edition Number: 1
ISBN10: 0679748261
ISBN13: 9780679748267
Condition: Acceptable
A vintage book with obvious wear. Has some damage to the cover, including minor cuff marks along the edges, and creasing on the front cover, but integrity still intact. The word 'WHITE' is written in small handwriting at the top of the first page, but no other writing in margins, and no underlining or highlighting of text. There is a large amount of discolouring throughout the book, most of which borders the pages, but no missing pages or anything that would compromise the legibility or understanding of the text. An old and aged, but still a clean, solid, and readable copy.