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Roth's award-winning first book instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion for even the most self-deluding of his characters.
And Five Short Stories
Vintage
January 1994
320 pages ISBN: 0679748261 Hardcover (reprint)
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Roth's award-winning first book instantly established its
author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless
insight, and a fierce compassion for even the most self-
deluding of his characters. 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 break and dive
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 that range in tone from the
iconoclastic to the astonishingly tender and that
illuminate the subterranean conflicts between parents and
children and friends and neighbors in the American Jewish
diaspora.
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