Goodbye, Columbus
- Author Philip Roth
- Narrator Jonathan Davis, Robert Fass, Ramiz Monsef
- Publisher Random House
- Run Time 9 hours and 6 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Modern and contemporary fiction.
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Philip Roth's debut novella and Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction
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 and fall 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 - sometimes iconoclastic, sometimes elegiac - that crackle with irreverent originality and display Roth's blazing early talent.
Philip Roth's prize-winning first book instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight and humane compassion for even the most self-deluding of his characters.
'Opening the first page of any Philip Roth is like hearing the ignition on a boiler roar into life. Passion is what we're going to get, and plenty of it' Guardian
© 1964 Philip Roth (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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Startlingly, incandescently alive
New Yorker -
Unlike those of us who come howling into the world, blind and bare, Mr Roth appears with nails, hair, teeth, speaking coherently. He is skilled, witty, energetic and performs like a virtuoso
Saul Bellow -
A great novella – amazingly, this was Roth’s first book – about love, sex and growing up
Observer -
Opening the first page of any Philip Roth is like hearing the ignition on a boiler roar into life. Passion is what we’re going to get, and plenty of it
Guardian
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