Goodbye, Columbus Philip Roth [Very Good] [Hardcover]

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VERY GOOD DUST JACKET: Minor chipping to top and bottom of spine. Minor wear to top and bottom edges of panels and flaps. BOARDS: Minor scuffing to crown and foot of spine and all outside corners, w/small cloth tears to bottom of latter. Rubbing to top and bottom edges, both boards, w/small cloth tear to back upper left. Minor stains to both boards. BOOK: A few small stains to textblock foredge w/slight bleedthrough to page margins. Upper right corner of FFEP cut out. Small stains to outer page margins, FFEP thru title page. Please inspect photos and read description carefully for condition details. More pics available on request. *************************** Here on offer is a very nice copy of Philip Roth's award-winning first book, Goodbye, Columbus, a collection of short fiction, the title novella being the basis for the 1969 film of the same name, starring Ali McGraw and Richard Benjamin. This is a 1st trade edition, 1st printing, published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 1959. The dust jacket is protected from further wear by a Mylar sleeve. ********************************************** ""National 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."" //////////////////////////////////////////////// Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its ""sensual, ingenious style"" and for its provocative explorations of American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller Portnoy's Complaint. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Philip Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history The Plot Against America. ///// Roth was one of the most honored American writers of his generation. He received the National Book Critics Circle award for The Counterlife, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Operation Shylock, The Human Stain, and Everyman, a second National Book Award for Sabbath's Theater, and the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 2001, Roth received the inaugural Franz Kafka Prize in Prague. . . . ********** The above text was taken from, respectively, HarperCollins publishers (via Google...