cover image Goodbye, Columbus: And Five Short Stories

Goodbye, Columbus: And Five Short Stories

Philip Roth. Vintage Books USA, $15 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-679-74826-7

In 1974's My Life as A Man Roth examines how a writer revises his reality, compiling two stories ``by'' one Peter Tarnopol and a third in which Tarnopol is the fictional protagonist. Vintage will simultaneously reissue Goodbye, Columbus , Roth's National Book Award-winning first novel, together in a new edition with five short stories. (Sept.)