false 29744 37 Neil Klugman (he of poor Newark) and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin (she of suburban Short Hills) meet one summer and dive into an affair that is as much about social class and suspicion as it is about love. Goodbye Columbus is accompanied by five short stories that range in tone from iconoclastic to the astonishingly tender and illuminate the subterranean conflicts between parents and children and friends and neighbors in the American Jewish Diaspora. 2971270 1959 Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories total:2556|5:679|4:1095|3:640|2:126|1:16| 2556 9963 3135 189 5 4 false false Sun Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 08:07:10 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 17:28:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Nov 21 08:19:38 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 21 08:19:38 -0800 2008 4 1 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 21 11:11:39 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 21 11:11:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 08 11:53:43 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 08 11:57:45 -0800 2008 Breakfast at Tiffany’s is the New York novella about flirting with the city’s upper crust, then Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus is the suburban story for the rest of us.

A coming-of-age story about a summer romance, it plumbs tensions from class, generational, r...more...]]> 0 1 false false Sat Sep 08 11:00:20 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 18 12:20:46 -0700 2007 chasing. What a fucker!

The description of the black child looking at art books would be offensive if it wasn't so laughable.

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So I am reading Goodbye, Columbus and I think it is an okay book not as amazing as American Pastoral but fairly good. I think for the time it was written which was the late 50's I could see this being a controversial book with the role of premarital sex and contraceptiv...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 07:50:57 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 09:24:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jan 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 17:22:21 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 06:43:35 -0800 2009 Portnoy's Complaint. I disagree. If each of his books were Portnoy's Complaint material, I would march myself right to my l...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 03 17:44:48 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 03 17:59:30 -0700 2008 Goodbye, Columbus is a bit exasperating, as I take issue with these young whiny East-coast Jewish male protagonists (Michael Chabon's The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, I'm looking at you) who can't handle the women they're with and so bail on them like the big cry babies they are, but ...more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Dec 21 09:15:28 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 21 09:17:33 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 29 20:12:24 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 20:21:42 -0800 2008
The novella, "Goodbye, Columbus," is good, and I found the protagonist as sympathetic as any average thinking man in his ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Sep 15 09:46:53 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 09:51:08 -0700 2009
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Goodbye, Columbus was Philip Roth's first novel, and it inspired awe in literary circles. Newsweek deemed it "a masterpiece." The New Yorker called it "superior, startling, incandescently alive." It's a simple lov...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 10:04:37 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 09:08:58 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 23 14:58:24 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 27 15:39:11 -0800 2008 1
I give it four because of my short stories bias: I'm bothered by the the lack of respons...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 22:04:13 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 00:42:00 -0800 2009
The only story that felt complete to me was "D...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Aug 10 15:18:54 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 10 15:20:30 -0700 2008 more...]]>