WHEN SHE WAS GOOD
作者: Philip Roth 著
出版社:Random House US 2011-11-1
简介:In this funny and chilling novel, the setting is a small town inthe 1940s Midwest, and the subject is the heart of a wounded andferociously moralistic young woman, one of those implacableAmerican moralists whose andquot; goodnessandquot; is a terribledisease. When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her alcoholicfailure of a father thrown in jail. Ever since then she has beentrying to reform the men around her, even if that ultimately meansdestroying herself in the process. With his unerring portraits ofLucy and her hapless, childlike husband, Roy, Roth has created anuncompromising work of fictional realism, a vision of provincialAmerican piety, yearning, and discontent that is at once pitilessand compassionate.