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What was Philip Roth's debut work?

  • Portnoy's Complaint

  • Sabbath's Theater

  • Goodbye, Columbus

  • The Plot Against America

Answer

Philip Roth's debut work was Goodbye, Columbus, a short story collection published in 1959. The stories are set in the Newark, New Jersey, area and deal with the lives of Jewish-American families. Goodbye, Columbus was a critical and commercial success, and it established Roth as a major American writer.
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