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Goodbye, Columbus : and five short stories/

'Goodbye, Columbus' is the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, 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 - sometimes iconoclastic, sometime...

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Main Authors: Roth, Philip (Author)
Published: Vintage,
Publisher Address: London :
Publication Dates: 2016.
©1987
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Summary: 'Goodbye, Columbus' is the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, 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 - sometimes iconoclastic, sometimes elegiac - that crackle with irreverant originality and display Roth's blazing early talent.
Item Description: Originally published without the short stories: London: Andre Deutsch, 1959.
Carrier Form: 259 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780099498155 (paperback) :
0099498154 (paperback)
Index Number: PS3568
CLC: I712.45
Call Number: I712.45/R845-54
Contents: Goodbye, Columbus -- The conversion of the Jews -- Defender of the faith -- Epstein -- You can't tell a man by the song he sings -- Eli, the fanatic.