When She Was Good
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First British Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. Clean text.
A searing work of literary fiction, When She Was Good chronicles the turbulent life of Lucy Nelson, a young Midwestern woman whose fierce moral rigidity and desperate hunger for respectability set her on a collision course with everyone she loves. Set in a small American town in the years following World War II, Philip Roth constructs a portrait of suffocating domesticity and thwarted ambition, illustrating how the era's rigid social codes could trap women in cycles of frustration and rage. Written with unflinching psychological precision, the novel presents Lucy not as a simple villain or victim, but as a deeply human figure whose relentless demands for decency ultimately destroy her. Roth's prose is cold, controlled, and merciless, capturing the quiet violence of ordinary family life with devastating clarity. A departure from the autobiographical Jewish-American milieu of his other works, this novel stands as one of his most underrated and emotionally complex achievements.
Author: Philip Roth
Format: Hardback
Published: 1967, Jonathan Cape
Edition: First British Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. Clean text.
A searing work of literary fiction, When She Was Good chronicles the turbulent life of Lucy Nelson, a young Midwestern woman whose fierce moral rigidity and desperate hunger for respectability set her on a collision course with everyone she loves. Set in a small American town in the years following World War II, Philip Roth constructs a portrait of suffocating domesticity and thwarted ambition, illustrating how the era's rigid social codes could trap women in cycles of frustration and rage. Written with unflinching psychological precision, the novel presents Lucy not as a simple villain or victim, but as a deeply human figure whose relentless demands for decency ultimately destroy her. Roth's prose is cold, controlled, and merciless, capturing the quiet violence of ordinary family life with devastating clarity. A departure from the autobiographical Jewish-American milieu of his other works, this novel stands as one of his most underrated and emotionally complex achievements.