Call It Sleep
Henry Roth; Alfred Kazin, introduction
Language: English
Published by The Noonday Press / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1994
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In fine condition; faint toning to clean interior; otherwise, as new. Sixth printing. 462 numbered pages. 8 1/4 x 5.5 in. Inv. KP209.
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- Title
- Call It Sleep
- Author
- Henry Roth; Alfred Kazin, introduction
- Publisher
- The Noonday Press / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0374522928
- ISBN 13
- 9780374522926
- Illustrator
- Jay Maisel, cover photograph
When Henry Roth published Call It Sleep, his first novel, in 1934, it was greeted with critical acclaim. But in that dark Depression year, books were hard to sell, and the novel quickly dropped out of sight, as did its twenty-eight-year-old author. Only with its paperback publication in 1964 did the novel receive the recognition it deserves. Call It Sleep was the first paperback ever to be reviewed on the front page of The New York Times Book Review, and it proceeded to sell millions of copies both in the United States and around the world.
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About the Author
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.
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