When She Was Good

When She Was Good
First edition
Author	Philip Roth
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Random House
Publication date	May 12, 1967
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	306
OCLC	31045007
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 20
LC Class	PS3568.O855 W46 1995
Preceded by	Letting Go
Followed by	Portnoy's Complaint

When She Was Good (1967) is Philip Roth's only novel with a female protagonist. It is set in a small town in the American Midwest during the 1940s, and portrays a moralistic young woman, Lucy Nelson. When still a child, Lucy had her alcoholic 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.

Works by Philip Roth

Fiction

Goodbye, Columbus (1959) Letting Go (1962) When She Was Good (1967) Portnoy's Complaint (1969) Our Gang (1971) The Great American Novel (1973) My Life as a Man (1974) Deception: A Novel (1990) Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993) Sabbath's Theater (1995) The Plot Against America (2004) Everyman (2006) Indignation (2008) The Humbling (2009) Nemesis (2010)

Kepesh novels	The Breast (1972) The Professor of Desire (1977) The Dying Animal (2001)

Zuckerman novels	Zuckerman Bound The Ghost Writer (1979) Zuckerman Unbound (1981) The Anatomy Lesson (1983) The Prague Orgy (1985) The Counterlife (1986) American Pastoral (1997) I Married a Communist (1998) The Human Stain (2000) Exit Ghost (2007)

Non-fiction

The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography (1988)
Patrimony: A True Story (1991)

Collections

Reading Myself and Others (1976)
A Philip Roth Reader (1980, revised edition 1993)
Shop Talk (2001)
The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works (2005–13)

Film adaptations

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