Requiem for Harlem (v. 4) (Mercy of a Rude Stream) - Hardcover

Roth, Henry

 
9780297842224: Requiem for Harlem (v. 4) (Mercy of a Rude Stream)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0297842226 ISBN 13: 9780297842224
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998

Synopsis

Ira Stigman's polarised life has never been more cruel. On the one side is EdithWelles, his supporter and friend , now his lover; she believes in him. On the other is his shameful immigrant origins, his poverty, his family with their arguements and lack of spohistication. Worst, there is his incestuous relations with his sister, and also hi cousin, who may be pregnant. This fourth and final volume, to be published posthumously, brings to a close one of America's most extraordinary literary odyssey's.

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About the Author

In 1994 Henry Roth broke his sixty-year literary silence following his classic novel CALL IT SLEEP, with the publication of volume one of MERCY OF A RUDE STREAM, called A STAR SHINES OVER MT. MORRIS PARK. This four-volume series was hailed as 'unsurpassable' in the annals of twentieth-century American literature. Henry Roth died aged 89 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in October 1995.

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Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0297842226
ISBN 13 
9780297842224
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
336

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