Goodbye Columbus and Five Short Stories, Letting Go Tapa dura - 2005

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… Leer más