First printing. Almost like new book in VG+ jacket. Bound in blue cloth, Random House, 1967, stated first printing with no additional printings indicated. Book in perfect condition except just barely visible fading of color on upper and lower edges of cover. Jacket not price clipped (5.95), very minor edgewear. Book was formerly owned by a collector who put the jacket in its very nice mylar sleeve. **We are a small family business selling online since 1999 with over 30 years' experience providing fine new and pre-owned books. We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA. **Your purchase supports our town's public library.

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Title: When She Was Good.
Publisher: Random House
Publication Date: 1967
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0394451872
ISBN 13: 9780394451879
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st.
Condition: Collectable, very good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Lucy is obsessed with an implacable crusading spirit which impels her to reform her alcoholic father and immature husband

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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, 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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