Call It Sleep : A Novel,9780374522926

Call It Sleep : A Novel

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Edition: Revised
ISBN13: 9780374522926
ISBN10: 0374522928
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1992-01-01
Publisher(s): Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Summary

When Henry Roth published his debut novel Call It Sleep in 1934, it was greeted with considerable critical acclaim, though, in those troubled times, lackluster sales. Only with its paperback publication thirty years later did this novel receive the recognition it deserves-and still enjoys. Having sold to date millions of copies worldwide, Call It Sleep is the magnificent story of David Schearl, the "dangerously imaginative" child coming of age in the slums of New York. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Henry Roth (1906-1995) was born in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galitzia. He probably landed on Ellis 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 Mercy of a Rude Stream.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix
Alfred Kazin
PROLOGUE 9(8)
BOOK I / The Cellar
17(126)
BOOK II / The Picture
143(65)
BOOK III / The Coal
208(54)
BOOK IV / The Rail
262(181)
Afterword 443
Hana Wirth-Nesher

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