Goodbye, Columbus, and five short stories
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Modern Library,
[1995]
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| Edition: | 1995 Modern Library ed. |
| Series: | [The modern library of the world's best books]
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| Online Access: | Go to Downloadable eBook Here. |
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| Item Description: | Series statement on jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 298 p. ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0679601597 (alk. paper) |
| Author Notes: | His first book, Goodbye, Columbus, received the National Book Award in 1960. His other books include Letting Go, When She Was Good, Portnoy's Complaint, My Life as a Man, The Ghostwriter, Zuckerman Unbound, I Married a Communist, The Plot Against America, The Facts, The Anatomy Lesson, Exit Ghost, Deception, Nemesis, Everyman, Indignation, and The Humbling. He won the National Book Critic Circle Awards in 1987 for his novel The Counterlife and in 1992 for his memoir Patrimony: A True Story. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1993 for Operation Shylock: A Confession and in 2001 for The Human Stain, the National Book Award in 1995 for Sabbath's Theater, and the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for American Pastoral. He stopped writing in 2010. He died from congestive heart failure on May 22, 2018 at the age of 85. (Bowker Author Biography) |
