{"product_id":"goodbye-columbus","title":"Goodbye, Columbus","description":"\u003cp\u003eProduct DescriptionWinner of the National Book AwardRoths awardwinning first bookabout Neil Klugman, Brenda Patimkin, and their relationship which tests the boundaries of suspicion, social class, and loveinstantly established its authors reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion for even the most selfdeluding of characters.ReviewA masterpiece. NewsweekUnlike 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 BellowSuperior, startling, incandescently alive. The New Yorker A masterpiece.  Newsweek 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 Superior, startling, incandescently alive.  The New YorkerA masterpiece. NewsweekUnlike 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 BellowSuperior, startling, incandescently alive. The New YorkerFrom the Inside FlapRoths awardwinning first book instantly established its authors reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion for even the most selfdeluding of his characters.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.From the Back CoverEn six nouvelles, lauteur de Portnoy et son complexe dmonte la socit amricaine et ses rapports avec le monde juif. Goodbye, Colombus raconte la brve aventure dun jeune intellectuel avec une tudiante. Conversation des Juifs montre un rabbin victime dune espiglerie denfant. Le Dfenseur de la foi se droule dans larme. Lhabit ne fait pas le moine dcrit lamiti insolite entre un tudiant de bonne famille et deux jeunes dvoys. Dans Eli le fanatique, les habitants dune petite ville veulent empcher les rescaps de lhitlrisme de monter une cole.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GALLIMARD","offers":[{"title":"Roth, Philip \/ pocket_book","offer_id":47844298588405,"sku":"SONG2070371859","price":21.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/81eq5briOIL.jpg?v=1773812701","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/goodbye-columbus","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}