Summary
Philip Roth: Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories
Philip Roth's award-winning first book immediately cemented his place as a writer of explosive mind, relentless insight and compassion for his own heroes, even those most prone to self-delusion.
Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugmann, a young man from poor Newark and a beautiful, to the lively Brenda Patimkin, a girl from the suburbs of Short Hills. They met during the summer holidays and embarked on a relationship that revolves as much around social class and suspicion as it does about love.
The novel is accompanied by five short stories, which alternate from iconoclastic to astonishingly tender.
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