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Also by Phillip Roth:

Everyman, April 2006
Hardcover
The Plot Against America, September 2004
Hardcover
American Pastoral, February 1998
Trade Size (reprint)
Portnoy's Complaint, September 1994
Trade Size (reprint)
Goodbye Columbus, January 1994
Hardcover (reprint)

GOODBYE COLUMBUS
By: Phillip Roth

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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