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).
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Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991. First Thus. Octavo (21.5cm); xx,[ii],9-462pp (mispaginated between intro and text). Illustrated dust jacket with $30.00 price intact; boards in plum paper and black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket edgeworn with a patch of bumping and creasing at bottom front and a few faint surface scratches. Boards are sturdy and square. Remainder mark (red capital P) on bottom page edges. Interior clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Definitive re-issue of Roth's classic of Jewish immigrant life in New York's Lower East Side. Initially published in hardcover in 1934 to little success, the book was re-discovered as a neglected classic and re-issued in hardcover in 1960 and paperback in 1964, the latter becoming the first paperback featured on the cover of The New York Times Book Review. Seller Inventory # 29974
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