Goodbye, Columbus
by Philip Roth
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Philip Roth is friends with literary critic Harold Bloom, and they even have their own club. William Shakespeare is a member, so you know it's good. - 1950s
Roth published his book in 1959, which classifies it, just barely, as 1950s. Check out our commentary on this decade, which details the social tensions starting to come to the fore in American society. Some of them pop up in Roth's novel as well.