by Philip Roth · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483461815
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«Cuando ella era buena» is the literary fiction novel by Philip Roth, published by Debolsillo in paperback (352 pages, in Spanish).
In a small Midwest town in the 1940s, Lucy Nelson grows up marked by an imprisoned father. Her inflexible morality leads her to try to reform the men around her, especially her husband Roy. That goodness turned into demand pushes her toward self-destruction, in a critique of piety as moral coercion.
Original title: When She Was Good. Novel translated into Spanish, published in the Contemporánea collection by Debolsillo.
For readers of literary and psychological fiction, and for those who follow Philip Roth's work outside his Jewish settings.
Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller Portnoy's Complaint. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history The Plot Against America.
