When She Was Good by Philip Roth (English) Paperback Book

Description: When She Was Good by Philip Roth 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Author Biography PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians Prize for "the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003–2004." Roth received PENs two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018. Review "High, careful tragedy, nasty as life, and Roth emerges ... as a Dreiser who can write!" —Stanley Elkin "Roth is a living master." —Harold Bloom, The New York Review of Books Review Quote "High, careful tragedy, nasty as life, and Roth emerges...as a Dreiser who can write!" -Stanley Elkin "Roth is a living master." -Harold Bloom,The New York Review of Books Details ISBN0679759255 Author Philip Roth Short Title WHEN SHE WAS GOOD Pages 320 Language English ISBN-10 0679759255 ISBN-13 9780679759256 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 813.54 Year 1995 Publication Date 1995-01-31 Residence Newark, US Birth 1933 DOI 10.1604/9780679759256 UK Release Date 1995-01-31 Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 1995-01-31 NZ Release Date 1995-01-31 US Release Date 1995-01-31 Publisher Random House USA Inc Series Vintage International Imprint Vintage Books Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:8323223;

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