| When She Was Good Contributor(s): Roth, Philip (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679759255 ISBN-13: 9780679759256 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1995 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Small Town & Rural - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 94031360 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.18" W x 8.03" (0.51 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |