Strange and familiar
This week marks the 50th anniversary of Philip Roth’s first book, Goodbye Columbus.
David Kelly has an appreciation.
Here’s the review from the May 17, 1959 edition of the New York Times.
These stories, though concerned with universal, archetypal experiences, are somewhat transmuted into that which is at once strange and familiar. “I’m a Jew,” one character says. “I am different. Better, maybe not. But different.”
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