Today we remember great American author Philip Roth, who entered public consciousness with the elegiac coming of age Goodbye, Columbus, inflamed the world with the crude, hilarious Portnoy’s Complaint, and introduced Nathan Zuckerman in 1974’s My Life as a Man, a character bearing more than a passing resemblance to Roth himself. The author would follow Zuckerman through […]
Philip Roth's brilliant career was launched when the unknown twenty-five-year-old writer won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship for a collection that was to be called Goodbye, Columbus, and which, in turn, captured the 1960 National Book Award. In the famous title story, perhaps the best college love story ever written, Radcliffe-bound Brenda Patimkin initiates Neil Klugman of Newark into a new and unsettling society of sex, leisure, and loss. Over the years, most of the other stories have become classics as well.
Philip Roth's brilliant career was launched when the unknown twenty-five-year-old writer won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship for a collection that was to be called Goodbye, Columbus, and which, in turn, captured the 1960 National Book Award. In the famous title story, perhaps the best college love story ever written, Radcliffe-bound Brenda Patimkin initiates Neil Klugman of Newark into a new and unsettling society of sex, leisure, and loss. Over the years, most of the other stories have become classics as well.
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ISBN-13: | 9780547345765 |
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Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Publication date: | 10/18/1989 |
Sold by: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 315 |
Sales rank: | 118,034 |
File size: | 2 MB |
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