“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..".
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