Goodbye Columbus
Author Signed Limited Edition
Philip Roth
1978
Franklin Library Sixty Series
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Title
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Goodbye Columbus and Other Stories
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Author
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Philip Roth
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Price
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$125
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Condition
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Fine- with a scratch to the top gilt
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Publisher
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Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA
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Publication Date
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1978
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Signature
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HAND SIGNED by Philip Roth on 3rd free endpaper.
(Bound in-Not Tipped in) Protective tissue guard laid in over signature page
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Collection
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One of the Sixty Books in the Series of Fine Author Signed Leather Limited Editions Published by Franklin Library in the Years 1977 Through 1982.
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Binding
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Premium rich red hand-cut full leather boards with a distinct cover design in ornate 22-karat gold gild. The spine is hubbed with raised horizontal ridges formed in the leather.
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Endpaper and Gild
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Red silk moire endpapers. Pages are gilded to protect against dust and moisture.
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Bookmark
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Sewn-in red satin ribbon page marker
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Illustrations
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Tony Kinokos
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Paper
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Acid neutral paper designed to last generations without discoloring
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Goodbye, Columbus, Philip Roth’s first book, is a novella and five stories that use wit, irony, and humor to depict Jewish life in post-war America. This tome about Neil Klugman, Brenda Patimkin, and their relationship which tests the boundaries of suspicion, social class, and love — instantly established Roth’s reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion for even the most self-deluding of characters. The book won him critical recognition, including the National Book Award for fiction, and along with that, condemnation from some within the Jewish community for depicting what they saw as the unflattering side of cotemporary Jewish American experience.
Philip Milton Roth, born March 19, 1933, is a Jewish-American novelist who is known for his 1959 collection, Goodbye, Columbus, as well as his sexually-explicit comedic novel Portnoy's Complaint (1969) and for his late-'90s trilogy comprising the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral (1997), I Married a Communist (1998), and The Human Stain (2000). Most of his novels contain Jewish characters and address issues of importance to American society such as assimilation, Zionism, and anti-Semitism.
Philip Roth is inarguably the most decorated writer of his era. Two of his works of fiction have won the National Book Award; two others were finalists. Two have won National Book Critics Circle awards; again, another two were finalists. He has also won two PEN/Faulkner Awards and a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - for his 1997 novel American Pastoral. In 2002, he was awarded the National Book Foundation's Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Literary critic Harold Bloom has named him as one of the four major American novelists still at work, along with Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Cormac McCarthy.
