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ISBN. 0-679-74826-1. OCLC. 2360171. Followed by. Letting Go. Goodbye, Columbus is a 1959 collection of fiction by the American novelist Philip Roth. The compilation includes the titular novella, "Goodbye, Columbus," originally published in The Paris Review, along with five short stories. It was Roth's first book and was published by Houghton ...
Language. English. Budget. $1.5 million [ 1] Box office. $22,939,805 [ 2] Goodbye, Columbus is a 1969 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw, directed by Larry Peerce and based on the 1959 novella of the same name by Philip Roth. The screenplay, by Arnold Schulman, won the Writers Guild of America Award.
Portnoy's Complaint is a 1969 American novel by Philip Roth. [ 2] Its success turned Roth into a major celebrity, sparking a storm of controversy over its explicit and candid treatment of sexuality, including detailed depictions of masturbation using various props including a piece of liver. [ 3] The novel tells the humorous monologue of "a ...
Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday is a 1973 novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut.His seventh novel, it is set predominantly in the fictional town of Midland City, Ohio, and focuses on two characters: Dwayne Hoover, a Midland resident, Pontiac dealer and affluent figure in the city, and Kilgore Trout, a widely published but mostly unknown science fiction author.
From Here to Eternity is the debut novel of American author James Jones, published by Scribner's in 1951. Set in 1941, the novel focuses on several members of a U.S. Army infantry company stationed in Hawaii in the months leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor . It is loosely based on Jones's experiences in the pre-World War II ...
[4] Robert M. Adams, in The New York Review of Books called Roth's work "a major achievement." [5] R.Z. Sheppard, in Time, viewed the book's concerns as ethnic: "There is a great distance between Portnoy's Complaint, with its stage-Jewish parents, and Patrimony, the perfect eulogy for a stiff-necked elder of the tribe. Yet in celebrating his ...
Plot. The Port Ruppert Mundys of New Jersey lease their stadium to the United States Department of War at the beginning of the 1943 season—to be used as a soldiers' embarkation point—which forces the athletes to play as the league's first permanent road team. The novel's narrator is "Word" Smith, a retired sports columnist who spends 1943 ...
The Columbus Book Festival will be held at the Columbus Metropolitan Library, 96 S. Grant Ave. and at the adjacent Topiary Park from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. July 13 and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 14.