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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.
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"High, careful tragedy, nasty as life, and Roth emerges...as a Dreiser who can write!" Stanley Elkin "Roth is a living master." Harold Bloom, The New York Review of Books"
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Philip Roth's entire oeuvre – 31 books – to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 014007676X
- ISBN 13 9780140076769
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- Number of pages320
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