Mercy of a Rude Stream

Henry Roth

ISBN 10: 0312105010 / ISBN 13: 9780312105013

Published by St Martins Pr, New York, 1994

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8vo pp. 2 290.Signed on the limitation page by the author .Limited edition number 68/150.In slipcase.

Seller Inventory # 168995

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mercy of a Rude Stream
• Publisher: St Martins Pr, New York
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312105010
• ISBN 13: 9780312105013
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dj
• Signed: Signed By the Author
• Book Type: book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

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Synopsis

Mercy of a Rude Stream marks the astonishing return of Henry Roth, sixty years after the publication of his classic novel Call it Sleep. A book of time, memory, and desire, this new novel is set in the New York of World War I: a colorful vibrant, carelessly brutal city where an immigrant boy, Ira Stigmanm is coming of age. Like Joyce's Stephen Dedalus, Ira begins to discover the genius and the burden of his imagination, as he takes his first tentative steps toward adulthood.

A contempoary of the great modernist writers, Roth is being rediscovered by a new generation of readers.

About the Author

Henry Roth died on October 13, 1995. His extraordinary literary legacy includes the classic Call It Sleep and six volumes of Mercy of a Rude Stream, all completed before his death. A Diving Rock on the Hudson is the second volume in this series and follows A Star Shines over Mr. Morris Park, also published by Picador.

While still alive, Roth recieved two honorary doctorates, one from the University of New Mexico and one from the Hebrew Theological Institute in Cincinnati. Posthumously, he was honored by Hadassah Magazine with a special Harold U. Ribalow Prize for Distinguished Literary Achievement. He was also given a special honor by the Museum of the City of New York.