Call It Sleep - Hardcover

Roth, Henry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374118191 ISBN 13: 9780374118198

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1992

Synopsis

The author presents a candid portrayal of Jewish life in the immigrant tenements of New York

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Review:

'A great novel of immigrant life' -- Guardian

'One of the few genuinely distinguished novels written by a
twentieth-century American' -- The New York Times

'Surely the most lyrically authentic novel in American literature
about a young boy's coming to consciousness'
-- New Yorker

About the Author:

Henry Roth (1906-1995) was born in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galitzia. He probably landed on Elis Island in 1909, and began his life in New York on the Lower East Side, in the slums where Call It Sleep is set. He is the author as well of Shifting Landscapes, a collection of essays, and the Mercy of a Rude Stream tetralogy.

Alfred Kazin (1915-98), was an American critic. His first book, On Native Grounds (1942), is a critical study of American prose literature from Howells to Faulkner. Later essay collections include The Inmost Leaf (1955), Contemporaries (1962), Bright Book of Life (1973), An American Procession (1984), Writing Was Everything (1995), and God & the American Writer (1997).

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0374118191
• ISBN 13: 9780374118198
• Binding: Hardcover