Call it sleep

Author(s)

• Roth, Henry

Bibliographic Information

Call it sleep

Henry Roth ; with an introduction by Aldred Kazin

（Penguin classics）（Penguin modern classics）

Penguin, 2006

Description and Table of Contents

Description

David Schearl arrives in New York in his mother's arms to begin his new life as an immigrant in the 'Golden Land'. David is hated by his father - an angry, violent man unable to find his niche in the New World - but is fiercely loved and protected by his Yiddish-speaking mother. An innovative, multi-lingual novel, Call It Sleep subtly interweaves the overwhelming love between a mother and son with the terrors and anxieties David experiences, as he seeks to find his own identity amidst the cultural disarray of early twentieth-century America.

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• NCID: BA81587500
• ISBN:
  • 9780141188652
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xix, 439 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 813.52
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Immigrants -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Bildungsromans
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00305646
  • BA00548998