Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth

Steven G. Kellman

ISBN 10: 0393057798 / ISBN 13: 9780393057799

Published by W. W. Norton & Company August 2005, 2005

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Dust jacket covered in protective mylar sleeve. Binding tight and square, Pages are clean and unmarked, Jacket has been taped to the book.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company August 2005
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393057798
• ISBN 13: 9780393057799
• Binding: Paper Back
• Edition: First Edition.
• Printing: First Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern First Editions

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Synopsis

A penetrating biography of an unheralded master of American fiction.

Henry Roth (1906-1995), author of the great immigrant novel Call It Sleep, is one of the giants of American literature, yet for years he has lacked a biography. After completing his first book in 1934, Roth lapsed into a legendary six-decade silence, only to reemerge with Mercy of a Rude Stream, hailed as "a landmark of the American literary century" (David Mehegan, Boston Globe) and "as provocative as anything in the chapters of St. Augustine" (Stefan Kanfer, Los Angeles Times Book Review). In following Roth's tortured life from his childhood on the Jewish Lower East Side to his twilight years in New Mexico, literary critic Steven Kellman has uncovered FBI files, spoken with family members and friends, and gained access to the tape in which Roth discussed the long-buried incest of his youth. Redemption is the Shakespearean saga of a great writer doomed to a life of psychological torment, but saved in the end by his search for deliverance. 16 pages of illustrations.

About the Author

Steven G. Kellman teaches English at the University of Texas at San Antonio and is the co-author of Into the Tunnel: Readings of Gass's Novel, a study of poet William Gass.