9780679759256
When She Was Good: Library Edition
Philip Roth
ISBN 13: 9780679759256
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Softcover
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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, Lucy Nelson, one of those implacable American moralists whose "goodness" is a terrible disease. Since seeing her alcoholic father thrown in jail when she was a child, Lucy has been trying to reform the men around her, even if that ultimately means destroying herself.
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"...it should be emphasized that 'When She Was Good', both in its sustained theme and its detail work, is a step in class above most recent novels: up on the edge, in fact, where stringent standards set in. Roth is a serious writer, willing to turn his face against fashion and the expected, and to take improbable chances. It requires guts to produce a 19th-century novel at this point. To produce a passably good one requires a bit more--an eccentric dedication, a functioning nostalgia and a wayward point of view. For these, and one or two other reasons, Roth is one of our few important writers concerning whose future it is possible to feel anything like real curiosity."
Wilfrid Sheed, New York Times Book Review, 6/11/1967
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