1995, ISBN: 9780393057799

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 completi… Mehr…

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 Kanfer, "Los Angeles Times" Book Review). In following Roth's tortured life from his childhood on the Jewish Lower East Side to his twilight years in New Mexico, literary critic Steven Kellman has uncovered FBI files, spoken with family members and friends, and gained access to the tape in which Roth discussed the long-buried incest of his youth. "Redemption" is the Shakespearean saga of a great writer doomed to a life of psychological torment, but saved in the end by his search for deliverance. Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth Kellman, Steven G., W. W. Norton & Company<

2005, ISBN: 9780393057799

W. W. Norton, New York: 2005. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. Chronicling the mysterious life of one of the most extraordinary American writers of the twentieth century,… Mehr…

W. W. Norton, New York: 2005. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. Chronicling the mysterious life of one of the most extraordinary American writers of the twentieth century, Redemption tells us the revelatory story of Henry Roth, whose first work, Call It Sleep, is regarded as the finest novel of the American immigrant experience. Mush has been written about Roth's inestimable contribution to American literature, but Redemption is the first book that traces Roth's unique story - from his birth in 1906 in a virtual shtetl in the disintegrating Astro-Hungarian Empire to his phoenix-like emergence as a literary curiosity in New Mexico just before his death in 1995. Includes an Index. "Henry Roth has only two peers in American-English Jewish fiction, Nathanael West and Philip Roth. Steven G. Kellman's poignant and skill biography is worthy of Roth; it memorializes the ultimately productive existence that fused its suffering into authentic aesthetic dignity." - Harold Bloom ISBN: 0393057798., W. W. Norton, New York: 2005<

ISBN: 9780393057799

In following author Henry Roth's tortured life from his childhood on the Jewish Lower East Side to his twilight years in New Mexico, literary critic Steven Kellman has uncovered FBI files… Mehr…

In following author Henry Roth's tortured life from his childhood on the Jewish Lower East Side to his twilight years in New Mexico, literary critic Steven Kellman has uncovered FBI files, spoken with family members and friends, and gained access to the tape in which Roth discussed the long-buried incest of his youth. Media > Book, [PU: W. W. Norton]<

ISBN: 9780393057799

In following author Henry Roth's tortured life from his childhood on the Jewish Lower East Side to his twilight years in New Mexico, literary critic Steven Kellman has uncovered FBI files… Mehr…

In following author Henry Roth's tortured life from his childhood on the Jewish Lower East Side to his twilight years in New Mexico, literary critic Steven Kellman has uncovered FBI files, spoken with family members and friends, and gained access to the tape in which Roth discussed the long-buried incest of his youth. Media > Book, [PU: W. W. Norton]<