Everyman by Philip Roth Reviewed by Benjamin Markovits
Times Literary Supplement
"Philip Roth's first book, Goodbye, Columbus, deserves a place with The Great Gatsby and Bartleby the Scrivener among the great American novellas. The title story, about a young Jewish man from Newark, New Jersey, who dates a rich Jewish girl from the suburbs, is exquisite ? lyrical, precise, moving and, if there could be such a thing, pitched perfectly off-key. It is superior to The Great Gatsby, if only in the sense that any book about prosperous American life that does not need a gunshot to round it out is better than a book that does." Read the entire Times Literary Supplement review.