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When She Was Good
by Philip Roth
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Overview
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, Lucy Nelson, one of those implacable American moralists whose "goodness" is a terrible disease. Since seeing her alcoholic father thrown in jail when she was a child, Lucy has been trying to reform the men around her, even if that ultimately means destroying herself.
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- ISBN-13: 9780679759256
- ISBN-10: 0679759255
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publish Date: January 1995
- Dimensions: 8.03 x 5.18 x 0.68 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.51 pounds
- Page Count: 320
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