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<p><p>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 Absorbing Narrative, Roth Evokes A Bygone- A Time Of Innocence Shadowed By Forbidden Experience, For Ira's Fateful Story Is That Of A Tormented Teenager Doomed To Near Madness By The Twisted, Violent Urges Within His Own Heart. So Intense And Consuming Is A Secret Carried By The Young Ira That It Can Only Be Revealed By The Old Man, Seventy Years Later, In Streams Of Cathartic Torrents That Free Him From The Shackles Of His Past.</p><h3>publishers Weekly</h3><p>henry Roth's Literary Reputation Would Be Secure On The Strength Of His Remarkable First Novel, Call It Sleep , Published In 1934 And But Largely Unknown Until It Appeared In Paperback In 1964 And Became An Instant Classic. Roth's Silence In The Intervening Years Has Been Broken Only By A Collection Of His Shorter Pieces, Shifting Landscape . This Novel, Then, Is A Signal Event, Especially Since Its Protagonist, Ira Stigman, Is Clearly The Same Young Boy Who Served As Roth's Fictional Alter Ego In The First Book, And Since It Begins Roughly Where The Earlier Novel End

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Author

Henry Roth, Henry Roth

Publisher

New York : St. Martin's Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312104993

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.84 / 5 (125 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14