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This "landmark of the American literary century" (__Boston Globe__) is finally published as one volume, appearing with a brilliant new introduction.Sixty years after the publication of his great modernist masterpiece, __Call It Sleep__, Henry Roth, a retired waterfowl farmer already in his late eighties, shocked the literary world with the announcement that he had written a second novel. It was called, he reported, __Mercy of a Rude Stream__, the title inspired by Shakespeare, and it followed the travails of one Ira Stigman, whose family had just moved to New York's Jewish Harlem in that "ominous summer of 1914." "It is like hearing that...J. D. Salinger is preparing a sequel to __The Catcher in the Rye__," the __New York Times Book Review__ pronounced, while __Vanity Fair__ extolled Roth's new work as "the literary comeback of the century." Even more astonishing was that Roth had not just written a second novel but a total of four chronologically linked...

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Author

Henry Roth, Joshua Ferris

Publisher

Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780871407627

Category

religious

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Religion

Rating

3.55 / 5 (18 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14