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A Radcliffe undergraduate and a Newark public library employee engage in a summer romance
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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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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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"Unlike those of us who come howling into the world, blind and bare, Mr. Roth appears with nails, hair, teeth, speaking coherently. He is skilled, witty, energetic and performs like a virtuoso." —Saul Bellow
"Superior, startling, incandescently alive." —The New Yorker
"Unlike those of us who come howling into the world, blind and bare, Mr. Roth appears with nails, hair, teeth, speaking coherently. He is skilled, witty, energetic and performs like a virtuoso." —Saul Bellow
"Superior, startling, incandescently alive." —The New Yorker
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publication date1959
- ISBN 10 0395081386
- ISBN 13 9780395081389
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages298
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1960 Meridian Fiction paperback - 1st edition 2nd printing of 1st paperback edition - signed and inscribed by Roth to friend and photography of the photo for his 3rd book Naomi Savage - some staining to cover and page edge - sticker on cover - otherwise binding fine contents clean - a fine collectible - enjoy. Signed. Seller Inventory # AU-ZWUN-DHBO
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1963 Bantam paperback - 1st Bantam edition - signed and inscirbed by Roth - slight wear to cover - minor staining to cover and page edge - otherwise binding strong contents clean - enjoy. Seller Inventory # K3-BTJY-KRD3
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