Mercy of a Rude Stream: The Complete Novels

by Henry Roth

Book Overview

Sixty years after the publication of his great modernist masterpiece, Call It Sleep, Henry Roth, a retired waterfowl farmer already in his late eighties, shocked the literary world with the announcement that he had written a second novel. It was called, he reported, Mercy of a Rude Stream, the title inspired by Shakespeare, and it followed the travails of one Ira Stigman, whose family had just moved to New York's Jewish Harlem in that "ominous summer...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871407620
• ISBN13: 9780871407627
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 1312 Pages
• Weight: 3.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.2" x 9.7"