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What award did "Goodbye, Columbus" win?

  • Pulitzer Prize

  • National Book Award for Fiction

  • Nobel Prize

  • Franz Kafka Prize

Answer

Goodbye, Columbus is a short story collection by American author Philip Roth that won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1959. The stories are set in Newark, New Jersey, where Roth grew up. They deal with the lives of Jewish-American families and their children, and with the conflicts between traditional Jewish values and the modern world.
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