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Goodbye, Columbus

Goodbye, Columbus

Author(s): Philip Roth

Location(s): New Jersey

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 20th Century

Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills, who meet one summer and fall into an affair that is as much about social class and suspicion as it is about love. The novella is accompanied by five short stories – sometimes iconoclastic, sometimes elegiac – that crackle with irreverent originality and display Roth’s blazing early talent.

Philip Roth’s prize-winning first book instantly established its author’s reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight and humane compassion for even the most self-deluding of his characters.

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