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Title: Call It Sleep : A Novel by Henry Roth, Alfred Kazin, Hana Wirth-Nesher ISBN: 0-374-52292-8 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.65 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A sleeper
Comment: I've never understood why more people haven't read, or heard of this book; it's truly a classic, beautifully written. It's fascinating on both a historical level and a psychological one, as we view the world through the eyes of a neurotic young boy growing up on New York's Lower East Side.
Rating: 5
Summary: This is one of my favaoite books!
Comment: I first read this book in the sixties. I have held on to the original paperback I bought back then because I thought it was out of print. I'm thrilled to get a new copy and will take great pleasure in re-reading it. I have reccommended this book to many people including academics. I recently read Angela's Ashes and in some respects it reminded me of Call It Sleep. The graphic depictions of poverty are reported to the reader through the eyes and voice of a young child. It's the kind of book that stays with you.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Quintessential American Immigrant Experience
Comment: Henry Roth's book "Call It Sleep" truly describes with great depth, feeling and emotion, the American Immigrant experience. Roth chose to use a 7 year old boy to narrate his story, thus making it more visceral and intense. Roth takes advantage of a 7 year old's state of mind and innocence, to portray the mid-childhood experience in a NY City East Side tenement ghetto.
Though Roth happened to choose a Jewish part of the ghetto to portray in his story, the true beauty and excellence of the book, is that the story could have taken place in any one of the ghettos of New York City. It can easily be generalized to the Irish immigrant experience, or the Chinese immigrant experience, or the Italian immigrant experience or virtually any other immigrant experience at that time. All of those immigrants experienced this cultural mixing and its attendant discriminations as immigrants in New York City in the 1920's and 1930's.
Roth published his book in the midst of the depression in 1934. But it came to real prominence when printed in paperback in 1964. The books true appeal is that it is universal to all Americans, except Native American Indians. All of the rest of Americans immigrated somewhere in their past. And thus, whether one be an immigrant today, or a 1st generation American or 2nd or 3rd, even if our ancestors came over on the Mayflower, we are all immigrants somewhere in our past.
Even if one's ancestors were Pilgrims, parts of Roth's book would ring true for them as well. Through the use of intricate analysis of the thoughts of Roth's main character, he portrays those innate emotions that we have all experienced, and from time to time, continue to experience.
The book is highly informative, highly emotional and highly entertaining. It reads very quickly, and is written impeccably. "Call It Sleep" is truly one book that all Americans should have in their collection.
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Title: The Stones of Summer by Dow Mossman ISBN: 0760748845 Publisher: Barnes & Noble Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: SOMETHING HAPPENED by Joseph Heller ISBN: 0684841215 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 12 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: From Bondage: Mercy of a Rude Stream (Mercy of a Rude Stream) by Henry Roth ISBN: 0312155328 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Mercy of a Rude Stream Volume 1- A Star Shines Over Mt. Morris by Henry Roth ISBN: 0312104995 Publisher: St Martins Pr Pub. Date: 01 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Stop-Time by Frank Conroy ISBN: 0140044469 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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