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Roth's award-winning first book instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a humane compassion even for the most self-deluding of his characters.
What is “Goodbye, Columbus”? A story of a summer romance, a satirical sketch of suburban arriviste Jews in the fifties-sure. But when I stumbled on Philip Roth’s first book on the shelf of my high school library, “Goodbye, Columbus” seemed to me above all a brief against marriage. The story’s point-or so I thought of it-unsettled me. I had no intention of heeding it. I was for marriage, a born ball and chain.
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There are copies available to loan: sygn. O 31473 (1 egz.)
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Na dole okładki: " Startlingly, incandescently alive" New Yorker.
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Zawiera: The Conversion of the Jews ; Defender of the Faith ; Epstein ; You Can't Tell a Man by the Song ; He Sings : Eli, the Fanatic.
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Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction w 1969r.
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