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When She Was Good

By Philip Roth

By Philip Roth

By Philip Roth

By Philip Roth

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Part of Vintage International

Part of Vintage International

Paperback $16.00

Jan 31, 1995 | ISBN 9780679759256

Ebook $11.99

Apr 20, 2011 | ISBN 9780307788603

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    About When She Was Good

    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.

    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

    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.

    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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    About Philip Roth

    PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral in 1997. 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 Medal… More about Philip Roth

    About Philip Roth

    PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral in 1997. 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 Medal… More about Philip Roth

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 31, 1995 | 320 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679759256

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Vintage
    Apr 20, 2011 | 320 Pages | ISBN 9780307788603
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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

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