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, 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 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 neighbors in the American Jewish diaspora.
- ISBN10 0553234080
- ISBN13 9780553234084
- Publish Date 1 January 1982 (first published 1 December 1959)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 April 2023
- Imprint Bantam Books
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Language English