Goodbye, ColumbusNational Book Award Winner Philip Roth's brilliant career was launched when the unknown twenty-five-year-old writer won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship for a collection that was to be called Goodbye, Columbus, and which, in turn, captured the 1960 National Book Award. In the famous title story, perhaps the best college love story ever written, Radcliffe-bound Brenda Patimkin initiates Neil Klugman of Newark into a new and unsettling society of sex, leisure, and loss. Over the years, most of the other stories have become classics as well. |
Contents
The Conversion of the Jews | 137 |
Defender of the Faith | 159 |
Epstein | 201 |
You Cant Tell a Man by the Song He Sings | 231 |
Eli the Fanatic | 247 |
Back Cover | 299 |
Spine | 300 |
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