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Tells 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. This novella is accompanied by five short stories - sometimes iconoclastic, sometimes elegiac.

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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 *

Goodbye Columbus

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage
      Published 5 October 2006
      ISBN-13 9780099498155
      978-0099498155
      ISBN-10 0099498154
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      Contemporary Fiction Books by Philip Roth

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Tells 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. This novella is accompanied by five short stories - sometimes iconoclastic, sometimes elegiac.

      Trade Review
      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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