NOVELS AND STORIES 1959-1962; Goodbye, Columbus & Five Short Stories / Letting Go
by Roth, Philip
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1931082790
- ISBN 13
- 9781931082792
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Library of America, 2005. First Printing. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Small 8vo, green cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival polyester-protected glossy black dust jacket (unclipped) with B&W photo of Philip Roth by Naomi Savage, green ribbon page-marker, green Lib of America endpapers, 913 pages + [2] Colophon. Philip Roth (1933-2018) is an American novelist of considerable repute. He first gained attention with the 1959 novella GOODBYE, COLUMBUS, an irreverent and humorous portrait of American Jewish life for which he received the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.<br/><br/>In addition to the title novella, set in New Jersey, Goodbye, Columbus contains five short stories: "The Conversion of the Jews," "Defender of the Faith," "Epstein," "You Can't Tell a Man by the Song He Sings," and "Eli, the Fanatic." It was his first book and was published by Houghton Mifflin.<br/><br/>Each story deals with the concerns of second and third-generation assimilated American Jews as they leave the ethnic ghettos of their parents and grandparents and go on to college, to white-collar professions, and to life in the suburbs.<br/><br/>Roth is one of the most awarded American writers of his generation. His books have twice received the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle award, and three times the PEN/Faulkner Award. He received a Pulitzer Prize for his 1997 novel American Pastoral, which featured one of his best-known characters, Nathan Zuckerman, a character in many of Roth's novels. The Human Stain (2000), another Zuckerman novel, was awarded the United Kingdom's WH Smith Literary Award for the best book of the year. In 2001, in Prague, Roth received the inaugural Franz Kafka Prize.<br/><br/>SUPERIOR CONDITION internally and externally with very slight edgewear and an unfolded lower corner of the front dj's flap.
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- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7235
- Title
- NOVELS AND STORIES 1959-1962; Goodbye, Columbus & Five Short Stories / Letting Go
- Author
- Roth, Philip
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1931082790
- ISBN 13
- 9781931082792
- Publisher
- Library of America
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- Short stories, Jewish, nudity, sex, humor,
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Borg Antiquarian
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Lake Forest, Illinois
About Borg Antiquarian
BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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