{"product_id":"goodbye-columbus-isbn-9780679748267","title":"Goodbye, Columbus","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winnning writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion comes \"a masterpiece\" (\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e) that illuminates the subterranean conflicts between parents and children and friends and neighbors in the American Jewish diaspora.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Roth's award-winning first book instantly established its author's reputation. \u003ci\u003eGoodbye, Columbus\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills, who meet one summer break and dive into an affair that is as much about social class and suspicion as it is about love. The novella is accompanied by five short stories that range in tone from the iconoclastic to the astonishingly tender.\"A masterpiece.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Unlike those of us who come howling into the world,   blind and bare, Mr. Roth appears with nails, hair, teeth, speaking coherently. He   is skilled, witty, energetic and performs like a virtuoso.\"\u003cb\u003e —Saul Bellow\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Superior,   startling, incandescently alive.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ePHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAcademy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHe twice won the National Book Award and the National\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBook Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN\/Faulkner\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAward three times. In 2005 \u003ci\u003eThe Plot Against America \u003c\/i\u003ereceived\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ehistorical novel on an American theme for 2003–2004.”\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eRoth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ein 2006 the PEN\/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN\/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eMedal at the White House, and was later named the fourth\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003erecipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304280019173,"sku":"NP9780679748267","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679748267.jpg?v=1767728378","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/goodbye-columbus-isbn-9780679748267","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}