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Article: Henry Roth: no mercy from a 60-year-old memory
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 12, 1995
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A DIVING ROCK ON THE HUDSON
Mercy of a Rude Stream, Vol. 2.
By Henry Roth. St. Martins Press. 418 pp. $3.95.
David Mehegan is an assistant book editor of the Globe.
This installment of the six-volume quasiautobiographical novel of
Henry Roth, 89, intensifies what is surely one of the most poignant,
strangest and most strangely disturbing projects in American
literature. Considered strictly as a work of art, divorced from its
context, it is sometimes awkward and often disappointing. But the
story it tells, its direct linkage with a virtually expired time,
place and literary generation, and its identity as an artifact from a
remarkable author, make it worthy of notice and ...