Goodbye, Columbus: And Five Short Stories (National Book Award Winner)

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER

"A masterpiece."—Newsweek

The prize-winning first book that instantly established Philip Roth as a major literary voice and as an unflinching, sharp observer of life—especially Jewish lives in postwar America.

Goodbye, Columbus follows the relationship between Neil Klugman, a working-class kid from Newark, and pretty, Radcliffe-bound Brenda Patimkin from the wealthy suburbs. They embark on a summer affair that introduces Neil to a new and unsettling society of sex, ...