Call It Sleep: A Novel

Roth, Henry; Alfred Kazin (intro.); Hana Wirth-Nesher (afterword)

ISBN 10: 0312424124 / ISBN 13: 9780312424121

Published by Picador-Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2005

About this Item

Stiff color illus. wraps. As issued, review copy with publisher's insert (folded). 1st thus. xx,462 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 070163

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Call It Sleep: A Novel
• Publisher: Picador-Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312424124
• ISBN 13: 9780312424121
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Thus.
• Condition: Fine
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature: Novels/Stories, Drama, Modern 1sts
  • New York City

About this title

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.