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Goodbye, Columbus Summary

The novella "Goodbye, Columbus" was first published in Roth's 1959 collection, Goodbye, Columbus, and Five Short Stories, which won the National Book Award. Other stories in the collection include "The Conversion of the Jews," "Epstein," "Defender of the Faith," "You Can't Tell a Man by the Song He Sings," and "Eli, the Fanatic." "Goodbye, Columbus" was adapted to the screen in the 1969 movie by the same title, produced by Paramount, directed by Larry Peerce...

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Goodbye, Columbus

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Goodbye, Columbus A collection of five stories and one novella, Goodbye, Columbus, Philip Roth's first book, published in 1959, introduces the basic themes that Roth explores more fully in the ... Read more

Philip Roth Biographies (5)

Philip (Milton) Roth

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In 1974, Philip Roth wrote a satirical novel about baseball which he entitled The Great American Novel. The title refers to the parodies of a number of classic American novels in the book, but it al... Read more

Philip (Milton) Roth

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One of the dominant voices of American-Jewish literature during the past two decades, Philip Roth has had an ambivalent, even troubled, response to the Jewishness of his congenial material. He was bor... Read more

Philip (Milton) Roth

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[This entry was updated by S. Lillian Kremer (Kansas State University) from her entry in DLB 173: American Novelists Since World War II, Fifth Series, pp. 202-234.]A major writer of twentieth-century ... Read more

Philip Roth

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The American author Philip Roth (born 1933) used his Jewish upbringing and his college days for the basis of many of his novels and other works.Roth used his experiences in growing up in the Weequahic... Read more

Philip Roth

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Biography EssayIn 1973, Philip Roth wrote a satirical novel about baseball which he entitled The Great American Novel. The title refers to the parodies of a number of classic American novels in the ... Read more

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Goodbye, Columbus

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Sean Altman Goodbye, Columbus Goodbye, Columbus, the title story of the book Goodbye Columbus and Five Short Stories by Philip Roth is a story of a fifties summer romance. Significant transitional ... Read more

Goodbye Columbus

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There was one summer a few years ago when a "summer fling" escaped it's reputation of being just another cliché: I met a boy. It was one of those random things; the kinds of things that are une... Read more

Goodbye, Columbus

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Goodbye, Columbus, by Philip Roth, tells a classic storyline on how lack of maturity and forceful ideas can lead to a disappointing end. Neil Klugman and Brenda Patimkin use each other in their brief,... Read more

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