Call It Sleep, Henry Roth
Call It Sleep, Henry Roth
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Call It Sleep

Author: Henry Roth

Narrator: George Guidall

Unabridged: 17 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/13/2012

Synopsis

Lauded as the most profound novel of Jewish life ever written by an American, Call It Sleep seamlessly weaves together the searing pains and subtle joys of immigrant life in New York's Lower East Side. It is the story of David Schearl, a dangerously imaginative little boy who arrives from Eastern Europe in 1907. Shock by shock, he is exposed to the blows-and occasional pleasures-of life in the crowded tenements.

About Henry Roth

Henry Roth (1906–1995), European-born American novelist and short-story writer, was the author of Call It Sleep, Mercy of a Rude Stream, and An American Type.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on June 23, 2021

Call It Sleep is a profound tale about all sorts of child’s fears. Bereft of father’s love David has no choice but to become a mummy’s boy. And he finds himself standing on the threshold of the hostile, inimical and indifferent world. Relieved by slight flurries in traffic from his father’s smoulderi......more

Goodreads review by Paul on November 23, 2012

If I read this in 1934 I would have thrown my socialist cap into the air and declared it to be genius. But not now, friends, not now. James Joyce's name crops up in reviews of this book all the time, but the similarities are superficial. Stream of consciousness, yep, that's about it. Don't misundere......more

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