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 childr...
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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