Article: Henry Roth: no mercy from a 60-year-old memory

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 ...

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