Novels and Stories, 1959-1962 (Library of America)
PHILIP ROTH: NOVELS AND STORIES 1959-1962Ross Miller, editorThis first volume of The Library of America's definitive edition of the collected works of Philip Roth, published by special arrangement with the author, presents the two books that inaugurated his literary career. Of Roth's first book, Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories, Saul Bellow wrote: "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." This masterpiece of character analysis and social description is joined here byLetting Go, Roth's first full-length novel, a powerful and ambitious study of the youthful struggle to become independent that is also an extraordinary social tapestry of 1950s America.