When She Was Good.

Roth, Philip

Published by Random House, New York, 1967

About this Item

First edition of Roth's second novel. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Christopher Lasch, with his name to the front free endpaper. Lasch was a historian, moralist, and social critic who was a history professor at the University of Rochester. Lasch sought to use history as a tool to awaken American society to the pervasiveness with which major institutions, public and private, were eroding the competence and independence of families and communities. He strove to create a historically informed social criticism that could teach Americans how to deal with rampant consumerism, proletarianization, and what he famously labeled the "culture of narcissism." Very good in a good dust jacket. Jacket design by Roy Kuhlman. "High, careful tragedy, nasty as life, and Roth emerges.as a Dreiser who can write" (Stanley Elkin). The literary critic Harold Bloom declared that "Roth is a living master" in The New York Review of Books.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: When She Was Good.
• Publisher: Random House, New York
• Publication Date: 1967
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Edition