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When she was good

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. 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.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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  • "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."
  • "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. 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.From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
  • "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. 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."
  • "Een jonge Amerikaanse probeert zich aan de invloed van haar geboortestad en haar familie te onttrekken maar haar pogingen leiden tot het mislukken van haar leven."

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Text"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Piracies (Publishing)"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"

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  • "Ona byla takai︠a︡ khoroshai︠a︡ roman"
  • "When she was good"
  • "When she was good"@en
  • "Een braaf meisje : roman"
  • "When she was good. (Novel)"
  • "Quando lei era buona"@it
  • "Quando lei era buona"
  • "Quand elle etait gentille"
  • "Quand elle était gentille : [roman]"
  • "Gdy była porządną dziewczyną"@pl
  • "Gdy była porządną dziewczyną"
  • "Quand elle était gentille"
  • "When She Was good"
  • "Lucy Nelson oder Die Moral"
  • "그녀가좋았을때"
  • "When She Was Good"@en
  • "Kieda była dobra"
  • "Kiedy była dobra"@pl
  • "Ona byla takai︠a︡ khoroshai︠a︡; roman"
  • "Cuando ella era buena"@es
  • "Cuando ella era buena"@ca
  • "Cuando ella era buena"
  • "Lucy Nelson oder die Moral : Roman"
  • "Een braaf meisje"
  • "Kŭnyŏ ka choassŭl ttae"

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