Call It Sleep: A Novel

Henry Roth; Alfred Kazin; Hana Wirth-Nesher

ISBN 10: 0374522928 / ISBN 13: 9780374522926

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992

About this Item

Light edge wear to the wraps. Long vertical crease to the back cover. Otherwise a clean, unmarked copy with no spine creases.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1551407550847

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Call It Sleep: A Novel
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374522928
• ISBN 13: 9780374522926
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Jewish Interest
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

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.

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.