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When She Was Good
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Series: Vintage International
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ISBN10: 0679759255
ISBN13: 9780679759256
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Jan 31 1995
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.18 Depth: 8.03
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780679759256
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Jan 31 1995
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.18 Depth: 8.03
Language: English
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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