# Goodbye, Columbus

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- Authors: [Philip Roth](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-roth)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2016-10-06
- Genres: Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general

## Description

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

## Editions

### Goodbye, Columbus

- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-15-2994-576-8
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2028-05-04
- Language: en_GB

### Goodbye, Columbus

- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 9 h 6 min
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Robert Fass
- ISBN: 978-15-2991-492-4
- Published: 2023-11-02
- Language: en_GB

### Goodbye, Columbus

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9949-815-5
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2016-10-06
- Language: en_GB

## This book in other languages

- [Goodbye, Columbus!](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-roth/de/goodbye-columbus) (de_DE)
- [Goodbye, Columbus](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-roth/es/goodbye-columbus) (es_ES)
- [Adeus Columbus](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-roth/pt/adeus-columbus) (pt_BR)