When She Was Good

Cum scria Philip Roth pe cînd nu devenise încă Philip Roth? Cine vrea să-și facă o idee poate deschide acest roman despre bărbați alcoolici, soții umilite și copile isterice. Pare singurul roman în care prozatorul discută altceva decît problemele și moravurile evreilor americani. Romanul poate fi pr......more

Lucy Nelson had a difficult childhood. Along with her timid, submissive mother and her alcoholic, n’er do well father..... .....Lucy lived with her mom’s parents. To make things worse, grandpa enabled the dad's bad behavior, continually urging the family to give the wife-hitting hubby "second chances......more

When She Was Good is an earlier Philip Roth novel that tells the story of a young woman who attempts to escape the entrapments of a troubled small town upbringing. Lucy Nelson's twenty two years of life have been comprised of an alcoholic father, a weak and dependent mother, and her own unplanned pr......more

There’s an old metaphor about frogs and boiling water. The saying goes that if you toss a frog into boiling water, it’ll jump right back out, but if you put a frog into cold water and gradually heat it up, the frog will let itself be boiled alive because it doesn’t realize what’s happening until it’......more