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Henry Roth

 
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Synopsis

Returning to the milieu of CALL IT SLEEP, Jewish Harlem at the beginning of the century, Roth introduces us to 14 year-old Ira Stigman and his extended family. It is 1914 and the family must contend with the impact of war on themselves and their homelands. Ira has other issues - sexuality, the racism of his peers, a bullying and failed father and the search for his own identity ...

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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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9780297814511: A Star Shines Over Mt.Morris Park (v. 1) (Mercy of a Rude Stream)

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ISBN 10:  0297814516 ISBN 13:  9780297814511
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994
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