![]() ![]() The book was not without controversy, as people within the Jewish community took issue with Roth's less than flattering portrayal of some characters. ![]() The book was a critical success for Roth and won the 1960 U.S. Each story deals with the concerns of second and third-generation assimilated American Jews as they leave the ethnic ghettos of their parents and grandparents and go on to college, to white-collar professions, and to life in the suburbs. In addition to the title novella, set in Short Hills, New Jersey, Goodbye, Columbus contains the five short stories "The Conversion of the Jews", "Defender of the Faith", "Epstein", "You Can't Tell a Man by the Song He Sings", and "Eli, the Fanatic". It was his first book and was published by Houghton Mifflin. Goodbye, Columbus is a 1959 collection of fiction by the American novelist Philip Roth, comprising the title novella "Goodbye, Columbus"-which first appeared in The Paris Review-and five short stories. ![]()
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