Henry Roth

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 the Mercy of a Rude Stream tetralogy.


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Call It Sleep
Call It Sleep

Henry Roth, with an Introduction by Alfred Kazin
Picador

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...


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Requiem for Harlem
Requiem for Harlem

Henry Roth
Picador

Completed just months before Henry Roth's death, the four-volume works of Mercy of a Rude Stream has become an epic American literary event. Here, in Requiem...


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From Bondage
From Bondage

Henry Roth
Picador

Henry Roth went to sleep for the last time on the evening of October 13, 1995, but not before completing this transcendent novel, which continues "one of the...


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A Diving Rock on the Hudson
A Diving Rock on the Hudson

Henry Roth
Picador

Painting a grand panorama of New York City in the Roaring Twenties, Henry Roth once again draws us into the adolescent world of Ira Stigman. Through this...


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Mercy of a Rude Stream
Mercy of a Rude Stream

Henry Roth
Picador

Mercy of a Rude Stream marks the astonishing return of Henry Roth, sixty years after the publication of his classic novel Call it Sleep. A book of time,...


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