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When She Was Good

by When She Was Good

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral comes a funny, chilling novel set in a small town in the 1940s Midwest, featuring a young woman whose moral goodness may destroy her.

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

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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Product Details

  • Knopf Doubleday Publishin Brand
  • Jan 31, 1995 Pub Date:
  • 9780679759256 ISBN-13:
  • 0679759255 ISBN-10:
  • English Language
  • 8 in * 0.73 in * 5.19 in Dimensions:
  • 2 lb Weight: