Bibliograph

Goodbye, Columbus and five short stories, Philip Roth

Type

Label

Goodbye, Columbus and five short stories, Philip Roth

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Goodbye, Columbus and five short stories

Oclc number

28067704

Responsibility statement

Philip Roth

Summary

"Contains the title work in which a Radcliffe girl and a Rutgers boy learn about live; and includes five additional short stories by the award-winning American author." "'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."

Table Of 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

Target audience

adult

Classification

Creator