Call It Sleep

Call It Sleep

"Call It Sleep" is a 1934 novel by Henry Roth. Time Magazine described it as "The story of three years in the life of a sensitive Jewish slum-child, told with painstaking and pain-giving fidelity," in the February 25, 1935 edition. While the book sold poorly upon its initial publication, the book received a second life when it was reviewed by literary critic Irving Howe on the front page of "The New York Times Book Review" on October 25, 1964, and has since sold over a million copies. Recently, Time listed it as one of the 100 best English novels from 1923 to 2005. [http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/]

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* [http://www.raymondvandewiel.nl/jewish_american_literature.html Undergraduate paper on (amongst others) "Call It Sleep"]


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