Call It Sleep: A Novel

Roth, Henry

ISBN 10: 0312424124 / ISBN 13: 9780312424121

Published by Picador, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Call It Sleep: A Novel
• Publisher: Picador
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312424124
• ISBN 13: 9780312424121
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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 sales. Only with its paperback publication thirty years later did this novel receive the recognition it deserves―--and still enjoys. Having sold-to-date millions of copies worldwide, Call It Sleep is the magnificent story of David Schearl, the "dangerously imaginative" child coming of age in the slums of New York.

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 the Mercy of a Rude Stream tetralogy.