Philip Roth

Goodbye, Columbus

originally published:

May 1959

We offered this copy of the first edition in 2004.

awards:

  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction(1998)
  • National Book Award for Fiction(1960)
  • National Book Award for Fiction(1995)
  • PEN/Faulkner Award(1994)
  • PEN/Faulkner Award(2001)
  • Burgess 99(1969)
  • First Book(1959)
  • Modern Library 100 Best Novels(052)
  • Time Magazine 100 Novels(1969)
  • PEN/Faulkner Award(2007)

reference info

bio notes:
born: 3/19/1933
born as: Philip Milton Roth
nationality: USA

American novelist and short-story writer whose works are characterized by an acute ear for dialogue, a concern with Jewish middle-class life, and the painful entaglements of sexual and familial love. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature

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