Goodbye, Columbus

by Philip Roth, Vincenzo Mantovani (Translator)

Overview

Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1959, Goodbye, Columbus è la storia di Neil Klugman e della bella e determinata Brenda Patimkin. Lui vive in un quartiere povero di Newark, lei nel lussuoso sobborgo di Short Hills, e si incontrano durante una vacanza estiva, tuffandosi in una relazione che ha a che fare tanto con l'amore quanto con la differenza sociale e il sospetto. Questo romanzo breve è accompagnato da cinque racconti, il cui tono va dall'iconoclasta al sorprendentemente tenero. *** «Aprire la prima pagina di un qualunque libro di Philip Roth è come sentire il rombo di una caldaia che si mette in moto. Quel che ci attende è la passione, passione a bizzeffe». «Guardian» *** «A differenza di quelli fra noi che vengono al mondo ululando, ciechi e nudi, Mr Roth è comparso con unghie, denti e capelli, sapendo già parlare. È abile, arguto, pieno d'energia, ed esegue la sua partitura da virtuoso». Saul Bellow *** «Rileggendo Goodbye, Columbus , ho nuovamente scoperto che l'autore, attraverso le sue storie, ancora una volta parla a me solo (a ognuno di noi, solo)». Nathan Englander

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788858405345
Publisher:	EINAUDI
Publication date:	01/31/2012
Sold by:	GIULIO EINAUDI EDITORE - EBKS
Format:	eBook
File size:	283 KB
Language:	Italian

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, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner and Saul Bellow, among others. He has twice won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. 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" and the W.H. Smith Award for the Best Book of the Year, making Roth the first writer in the forty-six-year history of the prize to win it twice.

In 2005 Roth became the third living American writer to have his works published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. In 2012 he won Spain’s highest honor, the Prince of Asturias Award, and in 2013 he received France’s highest honor, Commander of the Legion of Honor.

Hometown:

Connecticut

Date of Birth:

March 19, 1933

Place of Birth:

Newark, New Jersey

Education:

B.A. in English, Bucknell University, 1954; M.A. in English, University of Chicago, 1955

Editorial Reviews

In 1974's My Life as A Man Roth examines how a writer revises his reality, compiling two stories ``by'' one Peter Tarnopol and a third in which Tarnopol is the fictional protagonist. Vintage will simultaneously reissue Goodbye, Columbus , Roth's National Book Award-winning first novel, together in a new edition with five short stories. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

This release by the 1960 National Book Award winner will acquaint listeners with the world of American Jews in the 1950s and to Roths wit and insight into the problems accompanying assimilation. A widely respected American writer, Roth is the author of 22 books, including American Pastoral (Audio Reviews, LJ 10/1/97) and I Married a Communist (Houghton, 1998). Goodbye, Columbus features Neil Klugman, a young man from Newark living with his aunt, and Brenda Patimkin, an archetypal Jewish American Princess, whose summer romance illustrates the tension between old world values and the new suburb-based culture. Provocative and entertaining, the other stories tell of likable characters, mostly men, who embrace their Jewishness yet must face conflicts in family and community. Although written nearly 40 years ago, these stories illustrate truths about America and its relationship with Jews that remain relevant today. The readers, who include actors Theodore Bikel and Elliott Gould, are all excellent, capturing the particular characteristics of Jewish American speech. Highly recommended for all libraries.Nancy R. Ives, SUNY at Geneseo

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