Redemption: The Life of Henry RothW. W. Norton & Company, 2005 - 371 pagini Henry Roth (1906-1995), author of the great immigrant novel Call It Sleep, is one of the giants of American literature, yet for years he has lacked a biography. After completing his first book in 1934, Roth lapsed into a legendary six-decade silence, only to reemerge with Mercy of a Rude Stream, hailed as "a landmark of the American literary century" (David Mehegan, Boston Globe) and "as provocative as anything in the chapters of St. Augustine" (Stefan Kanfer, Los Angeles Times Book Review). In following Roth's tortured life from his childhood on the Jewish Lower East Side to his twilight years in New Mexico, literary critic Steven Kellman has uncovered FBI files, spoken with family members and friends, and gained access to the tape in which Roth discussed the long-buried incest of his youth. Redemption is the Shakespearean saga of a great writer doomed to a life of psychological torment, but saved in the end by his search for deliverance. |
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... Robert Weil once asked Roth the real name of the louche character called Ida Link . " Why , Ida Link ! " came the reply . Formal disclaimers on the copyright pages of his final books - A Diving Rock on the Hudson , From Bondage , and ...
... Robert Weil once asked Roth the real name of the louche character called Ida Link . " Why , Ida Link ! " came the reply . Formal disclaimers on the copyright pages of his final books - A Diving Rock on the Hudson , From Bondage , and ...
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... Robert Weil , and his agent , Roslyn Targ , with the suggestion that I become his biographer . I did not jump at the chance but away from it . For a year and a half , I pon- dered the many reasons that I , trained originally in the New ...
... Robert Weil , and his agent , Roslyn Targ , with the suggestion that I become his biographer . I did not jump at the chance but away from it . For a year and a half , I pon- dered the many reasons that I , trained originally in the New ...
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... Robert Weil and Roslyn Targ , and Roth's editor became my editor , his agent my agent . Roth's executor , Larry Fox , has also encouraged this project , ensuring access to the eighty - two cartons of Roth Papers housed in the archives ...
... Robert Weil and Roslyn Targ , and Roth's editor became my editor , his agent my agent . Roth's executor , Larry Fox , has also encouraged this project , ensuring access to the eighty - two cartons of Roth Papers housed in the archives ...
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... Robert Weil enough for their contributions to Henry Roth's life , and for their support , from beginning to end , of this literary life . Despite the cooperation I have received from Roth's executor , edi- tor , agent , and many members ...
... Robert Weil enough for their contributions to Henry Roth's life , and for their support , from beginning to end , of this literary life . Despite the cooperation I have received from Roth's executor , edi- tor , agent , and many members ...
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