When She Was Good - Philip Roth 1967 Random House Book Club vintage hardback Elizabeth McKeon contemporary and classic

contemporary and classic

and when he was dead

in the secret Swiss clinic where Bigend paid for him to be cured of the addiction that would have killed him

Front hinge cracked and webbing visible

When She Was Good - Philip Roth 1967 Random House Book Club vintage hardback Elizabeth McKeon contemporary and classicBlurb: 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