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    <![CDATA[Goodbye, Columbus]]>
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    <![CDATA[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.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wasn't really sure where &quot;Goodbye, Columbus&quot; (the title piece of the collection) was going at first and didn't like any of the characters, but Roth has a special way of making seemingly inconsequential things become transformative and meaningful.  I still vehemently disliked the characte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39088730">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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