When She Was Good

By Philip Roth

By Philip Roth

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When She Was Good by Philip Roth

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    About When She Was Good

    In this funny and chilling novel, the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, and the subject is the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralistic young woman, one of those implacable American moralists whose "goodness" is a terrible disease.

    When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her alcoholic failure of a father thrown in jail. Ever since then she has been trying to reform the men around her, even if that ultimately means destroying herself in the process. With his unerring portraits of Lucy and her hapless, childlike husband, Roy, Roth has created an uncompromising work of fictional realism, a vision of provincial American piety, yearning, and discontent that is at once pitiless and compassionate.

    About When She Was Good

    In this funny and chilling novel, the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, and the subject is the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralistic young woman, one of those implacable American moralists whose "goodness" is a terrible disease.

    When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her alcoholic failure of a father thrown in jail. Ever since then she has been trying to reform the men around her, even if that ultimately means destroying herself in the process. With his unerring portraits of Lucy and her hapless, childlike husband, Roy, Roth has created an uncompromising work of fictional realism, a vision of provincial American piety, yearning, and discontent that is at once pitiless and compassionate.

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    Praise

    "High, careful tragedy, nasty as life, and Roth emerges…as a Dreiser who can write!" —Stanley Elkin

    "Roth is a living master." —Harold Bloom, The New York Review of Books

    About Philip Roth

    In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold… More about Philip Roth

    About Philip Roth

    In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold… More about Philip Roth

    Product Details

    Paperback
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 31, 1995 | 320 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679759256

    Ebook
    Published by Vintage
    Apr 20, 2011 | 320 Pages | ISBN 9780307788603

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