When She Was Good
$26.08
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
3 December 2007
Summary
Philip Roth’s entire oeuvre - 31 books - to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016
When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her irresponsible, alcoholic father thrown in jail. Since then, Lucy has become a furious adolescent - raging against middle-class life and provincial American piety - intent on reforming the men around her: especially her incompetent mama’s boy of a husband, Roy. As time rolls on, Lucy struggles to free herself of the terrible disappoint…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099484998 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099484994 |
| Author: | Philip Roth |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 3 December 2007 |
| Weight: | 248g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
Roth is a living master
Roth is a living master * New York Review of Books *
When She Was Good, both its sustained theme and its detail work, is a step above most recent novels… Roth is a serious writer, willing to turn his face against fashion and the expected, and to take improbable chances’ * New York Times *
High, careful tragedy, nasty as life, and Roth emerges…as a Dreiser who can write! – Stanley Elkin
Compassion mingles with horror in a superb portrayal of a young woman’s obsession with moral rectitude * Saturday Review *
About The Author
Philip Roth
Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on March 19, 1933, to second-generation Americans Bess and Herman. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighborhood his writing returned to time and again.
Roth received the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), but it was his fourth, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) which secured his reputation as one of America’s finest writers, and American Pastoral (1997) which won the Pulitzer Prize. Roth wrote thirty-one books in all, winning the International Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice. He was presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.
Roth died aged eighty-five on May 22, 2018, six years after retiring from writing.
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