Paul Goodman

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  • Bibliography:
    7 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1977
  • Latest Book:
    February 2015
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Books in Order: 7 titles

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  • Dockhead

    Everyone wants to be filled. Modern-lifers long for meaning, and from Dockhead, London, Edward Fisher sees this clearer than most: in Nancy, his novelist wife, in search of her working-class roots; in lovelorn friends; in his workaholic editor; and i...

  • Growing Up Absurd

    Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd was a runaway best seller when it was first published in 1960, and it became one of the defining texts of the New Left. Goodman was a writer and thinker who broke every mold and did it brilliantly—he was a...

  • Parents' Day

  • Galley to Mytilene, Stories Nineteen Forty-Nine to Nineteen Sixty

    This final collection of Goodman's short fiction contains many of his best-known stories, including the much-anthologized Our Visit to Niagra and Adam. After the egoistic rage and alienation of the Thirties and Forties come these dialectic tales of t...

  • A Ceremonial, Stories, 1936-1940

    These twenty-four stories some traditional and realistic, others experimental and "cubist" were written when Goodman was in his late twenties, a student at the University of Chicago living the life of a romantic artist-outsider. They reveal a rebel a...

  • The Break-up of Our Camp

  • The Empire City

    The thirty year epic story of Horatio, an idealist who struggles to take his place in a conformist society and still retain his personal identity.“If we conformed to the mad society, we became mad,” Paul Goodman writes in Empire City, ...



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Paul Goodman has published 7 books.

Paul Goodman does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Dockhead, was published in February 2015.

The first book by Paul Goodman, The Empire City, was published in May 1977.

No. Paul Goodman does not write books in series.
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