Goodbye, Columbus

Many many years since last read Philip Roth's great first collection Goodbye, Columbus and it still remains vivid in mind esp title novella in part Bcz of excellent film adaptation v rare for Roth's works - someone should try some of his other pieces now that he's retired from writing. Also vivid Bcz these are the very streets i grew up on - I am sure the passage in which he describes the streets aspirationally named for eastern colleges refers to the streets in wo tho in the novella they are placed in short hills. This piece fortells so much of Roth's great career notably the comic yet affectionate portrayal of his peeps (and mine) and the cocky yet socially insecure or slightly inferior protagonist who could just as easily be a character in nemesis 60 years later!

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