Home » When She Was Good
Product Image

When She Was Good

Philip Roth
€16.99
Quantity:
In stock with our UK publisher. 14-28 days
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
14 days return policy Shipping & Delivery
a family torn
A01=Philip Roth
america
americana
asia
asian
Author_Philip Roth
balkans
black
brooklyn
Category=FBA
cheating
chick lit
childhood trauma
china
collection
comedy
coming of age
contemporary fiction
contemporary romance
culture
dark
death
divorce
dutch
english literature
eq_bestseller
eq_fiction
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_modern-contemporary
eq_nobargain
families
family saga
feminism
feminist
friendship
german
germany
grief
historical romance
imaginative realism
india
infidelity
israel
jewish
judaism
law
literary fiction
love story
marriage
mental health
middle east
movies
new york
race
relationships
resentment
revenge
roman
romania
rome
russian
saga
school
sisters
small town
social
society
spain
strong female protagonist
the father daughter talk
thriller
work
world war 2
world war ii
ww2
wwii
yearning

Product details

  • ISBN 9780099484998
  • Weight: 248g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Oct 2007
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
Secure checkout Fast Shipping Easy returns
Description
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 disappointment engendered by her father, and is forever yearning for the man he could never be. It is with scalpel-like precision that Roth depicts the rage, the hatred and the ferocity of feeling that soon takes hold of Lucy's life.
About Philip Roth

Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933, to second-generation Americans Bess and Herman. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood 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 22 May 2018, six years after retiring from writing.

More from this author