Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories by Philip Roth

Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories by Philip RothPhilip Roth's debut novella and Winner of the National Book Award for FictionGoodbye, 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

interesting characters

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a jail inmate who observes and Investigation

a new regime seizes power

Myth and Legend lay the background

to lesser-known names like 19th-century African American quilter Harriet Powers and Hopi-Tewa ceramic artist Nampeyo

and spend the next five days in a torrid affair

slum dwellers and the common men and women of India

Heartrending and darkly comic

So begins a not-quite-romance of near-misses

translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M

Since that time he has traveled extensively around the world