David Schearl arrives in New York in his mother's arms to begin his new life as an immigrant in the 'Golden Land'. David is hated by his father - an angry, violent man unable to find his niche in the New World - but is fiercely loved and protected by his Yiddish-speaking mother. An innovative, multi-lingual novel, Call It Sleep subtly interweaves the overwhelming love between a mother and son with the terrors and anxieties David experiences, as he seeks to find his own identity amidst the cultural disarray of early twentieth-century America.

Modern Classics Call It Sleep

Literature & Fiction

Roth, Henry

Contemporary

Penguin Classic

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.

20th Century Call It Sleep

Call it Sleep

Penguin Classics

Henry Roth, author of "Call It Sleep", returns after nearly 50 years with this novel of immigrant life in early 20th-century New York. The book introduces an extended Jewish immigrant family, whom the reader follows from the outbreak of World War I to the 1920s.

Mercy of a Rude Stream Volume 1

St.Martin's Press

Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth.

Diving Rock On the Hudson

Weidenfeld &Nicholson

This work contains all of Roth's short stories, the only remaining chapter of the unfinished second novel that he wrote for Maxwell Perkins, and other articles and memoir materials.

Shifting Landscape

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

First UK Edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

From Bondage

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Ira Stigman, an immigrant boy, suffers a cruel Americanization process from 1914 through 1921 in a novel that deals with themes of Prohibition, anti-Semitism, racism, and the violence of sexuality. By the author of Call It Sleep. 50,000 first printing.

Mercy of a Rude Stream

St Martins Pr

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.

Mercy of a Rude Stream/Limited Edition

Gathers writings from each period in Roth's career, including memoirs, articles, a poem, a speech, and excerpts from an unfinished novel

Essays & Correspondence

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Modern Classics Call It Sleep

20th Century Call It Sleep

Call it Sleep

Mercy of a Rude Stream Volume 1

Diving Rock On the Hudson

Shifting Landscape

From Bondage

Mercy of a Rude Stream

Mercy of a Rude Stream/Limited Edition

Shifting Landscape