When She Was Good

De: Philip Roth

Narrado por: Tanya Eby

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral comes a funny, chilling novel set in a small town in the 1940s Midwest, featuring a young woman whose moral goodness may destroy her.

When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her alcoholic failure of a father thrown in jail. Ever since then she has been trying to reform the men around her, even if that ultimately means destroying herself in the process. With his unerring portraits of Lucy and her hapless, childlike husband, Roy, Roth has created an uncompromising work of fictional realism, a vision of provincial American piety, yearning, and discontent that is at once pitiless and compassionate.

©1967 Philip Roth (P)2024 Blackstone Publishing

Worth the read!

Phillip Roth writes with glaring truth about the tragic dysfunction of a family and the repercussions of this. Very disappointed in the narration portrays the female protagonist as a whining shrew, rather than a young girl who has faced an unfair childhood followed by an unplanned pregnancy and the loss of her hopes and dreams.