Henry Roth
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| Title | : | Call It Sleep |
| Author | : | Henry Roth |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 462 pages |
| Published | : | 1994 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (first published 1934) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature. Jewish |
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When Henry Roth published Call It Sleep, his first novel, in 1934, it was greeted with critical acclaim. But in that dark Depression year, books were hard to sell, and the novel quickly dropped out of sight, as did its twenty-eight-year-old author. Only with its paperback publication in 1964 did the novel receive the recognition it deserves. Call It Sleep was the first paperback ever to be reviewed on the front page of The New York Times Book Review, and it proceeded to sell millions of copies both in the United States and around the world. Call It Sleep is the magnificent story of David Schearl, the “dangerously imaginative” child coming of age in the slums of New York.Define Books Toward Call It Sleep
| Original Title: | Call it Sleep |
| ISBN: | 0374522928 (ISBN13: 9780374522926) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | David Schearl |
| Setting: | Lower East Side, New York City, New York(United States) East Village, New York City, New York(United States) |
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Ratings: 3.83 From 7658 Users | 409 ReviewsCritique Regarding Books Call It Sleep
I give 5*s too much...that is not the case here. This book is brilliant and worth multiple readings.Memo to Saul Bellow THIS is how you write an American Jewish novel. Joking aside, and with little in the way of preamble, please allow me to say that this truly is an opus of the rarest kind. Akin to Melville's Moby Dick and Jones' From Here to Eternity, this work is the result of a soul laid bare and detailed with the heaviest, the most austere, but in the end, most telling kind of language. Though some of the dialogue (better parsed as dialect) is hard to read (probably more so for those
If I read this in 1934 I would have thrown my socialist cap into the air and declared it to be genius. But not now, friends, not now. James Joyce's name crops up in reviews of this book all the time, but the similarities are superficial. Stream of consciousness, yep, that's about it. Don't misunderestimate me through, Henry Roth is a very remarkable writer. But reading him gave me the same feelings the coffee shop manager has towards Phoebe's singing in Friends -"Don't you like Phoebe's
Call It Sleep is a profound tale about all sorts of childs fears. Bereft of fathers love David has no choice but to become a mummys boy. And he finds himself standing on the threshold of the hostile, inimical and indifferent world.Relieved by slight flurries in traffic from his fathers smouldering eye, David stared unhappily at the houses gliding past the doorway. He felt strange feverish almost. Whether it was that he had been staring down into the cellar too long, or whether because his fear
I fell in love with the boy in this book. Proust, pay attention. A serious child who loves his mama doesn't have to whine. And this kid faced much more adversity than having to go to bed during dinner parties. Back when NKOTB still signed posters for squealing girls, I lived for sleeping over at a friend's house. Most of my friends attended the same church I did, but didn't live for church. They were allowed to breathe and have two piece bathing suits. I was not. My parents lived like a light
Poor young David is an only child on the Lower East Side a bit more than one hundred years ago. His life is laid bare in this tale. Descriptions and lots of dialog describe the Jewish culture at this time. Somewhat dull, and very long.
Anybody who has ever wanted to write should read this. I mean no hyperbole by saying so. This is one of the few novels I've ever seen to use dialect and get it right. In most hands it's distracting, or patronizing to the outsiders it is usually attributed to. In Call It Sleep the broken Yiddish-English and street lingo complete the reader's immersion in young David Schearl's world.As a recent immigrant, David's journey from innocence to experience is a vivid one. A sensitive child, he is bullied
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