Call It Sleep
A Novel
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3.9 • 7 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
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.
Customer Reviews
Through a young boy's eyes
Sent for by her angry and bitter husband a young woman comes to America with her very young son, David, who is literally a lightening rod perched up high between his adoring mother a the father who believes him tainted but wants someone to say Kaddish when he dies. While steps out into the lower east side in the early years of the twentieth century he struggles to understand this strange land where eventually not be a stranger. A immigrant's tale whose writer makes some of it read and sound like poetry. Read this book.