Goodbye Columbus & Five Short Stories by Philip Roth [FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION / 1959]

Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories by Philip Roth

FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION [1959] HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

Hardcover with dust jacket.

Dust jacket has heavy toning and some rippling from mild water damage on front.  Tear atop spine. 

Book itself has a clean cover and interior but with foxing to exterior page edges. [see last photo]   Pages look new and unread.   Slight musty "old book" smell.  

Winner of the National Book Award in 1960, Roth's award-winning first book instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion for even the most self-deluding of his characters.

Goodbye, Columbus 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 and that illuminate the subterranean conflicts between parents and children and friends and neighbors in the American Jewish diaspora.