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A Diving Rock on the Hudson (Mercy of a Rude Stream) (Vol 2)
Henry Roth
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Description for A Diving Rock on the Hudson (Mercy of a Rude Stream) (Vol 2)
Paperback. The internationally-acclaimed, definitive account of immigrant life in early-twentieth century New York. Series: Mercy of a Rude Stream. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 30. Weight in Grams: 352.
'A landmark of the American literary century' Boston Globe
Sixty years after the publication of his great modernist masterpiece, Call It Sleep, Henry Roth returned with Mercy of a Rude Stream - a sequence of four internationally-acclaimed epic novels of immigrant life in early-twentieth century New York.
The second novel in the internationally acclaimed six-volume sequence which began with MERCY OF A RUDE STREAM. Ira Stigman, now an adolescent in 1920s New York, is on the rack. All his friends seem to be paragons of achievement and sophistication, while his own life bears the taint ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Series
Mercy of a Rude Stream
Condition
New
Weight
352g
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857993561
SKU
V9781857993561
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About Henry Roth
In 1994 Henry Roth broke his sixty-year literary silence following his classic novel CALL IT SLEEP, with the publication of volume one of MERCY OF A RUDE STREAM, called A STAR SHINES OVER MT. MORRIS PARK. This four-volume series was hailed as 'unsurpassable' in the annals of twentieth-century American literature. Henry Roth died aged 89 in ... Read more
Reviews for A Diving Rock on the Hudson (Mercy of a Rude Stream) (Vol 2)
The Ur-novel at the heart of American literature - Mercy of a Rude Stream is a towering achievement
Junot Diaz Henry Roth has only two peers in American-English Jewish fiction, Nathanael West and Philip Roth
Harold Bloom The literary comeback of the century
Vanity Fair
A masterpiece ... It is not remotely like anything else in ... Read more
Junot Diaz Henry Roth has only two peers in American-English Jewish fiction, Nathanael West and Philip Roth
Harold Bloom The literary comeback of the century
Vanity Fair
A masterpiece ... It is not remotely like anything else in ... Read more