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Transcript: Novelist, Henry Roth, Published After 60 Years
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- NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
- Article date:
- February 12, 1994
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SCOTT SIMON, Host: In 1934 Henry Roth wrote one of the great American
novels of this century. However, few people knew about it until 1964,
when it was reissued in paperback edition that sold more than a million
copies. But even then the novel, Call It Sleep, was often read as
an artifact that had somehow risen up from the buried sands of some
former civilization.
In this case, the rambunctious tenements of New York City's lower
east side, just after the turn of the century. And a young man, David
Shurl [sp], who grows up in the story and brings the novel to a close
by trying to electrocute himself on the trolley line, so silver and
silent. We asked Eli ...
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