Goodbye, Columbus

And Five Short Stories: Goodbye Columbus; the Conve Rsion of the Jews; Defender of the Faith; Epstein; You Can't Tell a M an By the Song He Sings; Eli,the Fanatic

By: Philip Roth

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Paperback | 5 October 2006 | Edition Number 1

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272 Pages

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Philip 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, COLOMBUS 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 neighbours in the American Jewish diaspora. object width="480" height="303"param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/B6uL8SUYqeY?fs=1andamp;hl=en_GBandamp;rel=0"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramparam name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/paramembed src="//www.youtube.com/v/B6uL8SUYqeY?fs=1andamp;hl=en_GBandamp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="303" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"/embed/object

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Startlingly, incandescently alive * 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
A great novella - amazingly, this was Roth's first book - about love, sex and growing up * Observer *
Opening the first page of any Philip Roth is like hearing the ignition on a boiler roar into life. Passion is what we're going to get, and plenty of it * Guardian *

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