Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth

by Steven G. Kellman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393057798
• ISBN13: 9780393057799
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.6"