{"product_id":"goodbye-columbus-and-five-short-stories-9780063499676","title":"Goodbye, Columbus: And Five Short Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A masterpiece.\"--\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Superior, startling, incandescently alive.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Brilliant. . . . Both entirely like and distinct from everything Roth wrote later.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilip Roth's first book instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and fierce compassion for even the most self-deluding of his characters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoodbye, 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 conflict between parents and children and friends and neighbors in the American Jewish diaspora.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip Roth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mariner Books Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.91h x 5.21w x 0.91d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780063499676\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoth, Philip:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003ePHILIP ROTH (1933-2018) won the Pulitzer Prize for \u003cem\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/em\u003e in 1997\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e 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 twice won the National Book Award, the PEN\/Faulkner Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2005 \u003cem\u003eThe Plot Against America\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Philip Roth \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48840786509981,"sku":"9780063499676","price":22.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_d1a934b9-c5a3-455e-b99f-fc06541ef64e.jpg?v=1787726563","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/goodbye-columbus-and-five-short-stories-9780063499676","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}