WHEN SHE WAS GOOD - DEDICATION COPY, INSCRIBED TO ALISON LURIE
by Roth, Philip
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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Stephenson, Virginia, United States
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Synopsis
When She Was Good (1967) is Philip Roth's only novel with a female protagonist, Lucy Nelson. 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.
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- Bookseller
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5745
- Title
- WHEN SHE WAS GOOD - DEDICATION COPY, INSCRIBED TO ALISON LURIE
- Author
- Roth, Philip
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1967
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