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Mercy of a Rude Streammarks the astonishing return of Henry Roth, sixty years after the publication of his classic novelCall it Sleep. A book of time, memory, and desire, this new novel is set in the New York of World War I: a colorful vibrant, carelessly brutal city where an immigrant boy, Ira Stigmanm is coming of age. Like Joyce's Stephen Dedalus, Ira begins to discover the genius and the burden of his imagination, as he takes his first tentative steps toward adulthood. A contempoary of the great modernist writers, Roth is being rediscovered by a new generation of readers.Roth, Henry is the author of 'Mercy of a Rude Stream ', published 1995 under ISBN 9780312119294 and ISBN 0312119291.
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