by Philip Roth · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140282672
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Goodbye, Columbus is a collection of short stories by American writer Philip Roth, published in 1959. The work includes the novella of the same name and 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". The main story tells the love relationship between Neil, a young college boy, and Brenda, the spoiled but love-starved daughter of a wealthy manufacturer.
Philip Milton Roth 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 Jewish and 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 Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history The Plot Against America.
