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Article: HENRY ROTH'S RICH COMPOSITE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 5, 1988
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SHIFTING LANDSCAPE. A Composite, 1925-1987, by Henry
Roth; edited with an introduction by Mario Materassi.
Jewish Publication Society. 301 pp. $19.95.
In 1934 Henry Roth, still in his 20s, wrote "Call It Sleep,"
perhaps the most astonishing first novel
ever written by an American. More than two decades later, two
prominent critics drew attention to the book in a symposium about
neglected American literature. The novel was republished in 1960,
and it has since sold more than a million copies; it remains in
print. "Call It Sleep" remains the classic artistic expression of
the experience of immigrant Jews in America because it is also a
classic statement about every ...