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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... young man shattered by indifference to his early masterpiece . " -STEVEN G. KELLMAN , FROM THE INTRODUCTION Chronich hronicling the mysterious life of one of the most extraordi- nary American writers of the twentieth century ...
... young man shattered by indifference to his early masterpiece . " -STEVEN G. KELLMAN , FROM THE INTRODUCTION Chronich hronicling the mysterious life of one of the most extraordi- nary American writers of the twentieth century ...
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... America . In exchange for his gratitude , she offered Lawrence a crude pine cabin and the services of a young caretaker named Al Bierce . It was here , on Luhan's Kiowa Ranch , that Lawrence finally stopped moving , at least 3.
... America . In exchange for his gratitude , she offered Lawrence a crude pine cabin and the services of a young caretaker named Al Bierce . It was here , on Luhan's Kiowa Ranch , that Lawrence finally stopped moving , at least 3.
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... young protagonist . Though I was then ten years older and two generations younger , David's brutal domestic drama could have been my own . My grand- parents - whom I related to more easily than their children - came , like the Schearls ...
... young protagonist . Though I was then ten years older and two generations younger , David's brutal domestic drama could have been my own . My grand- parents - whom I related to more easily than their children - came , like the Schearls ...
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... young Village radical who mingled with many of the era's most influ- ential intellectuals and artists ? And how to reconcile these with the arthritic old man in Albuquerque who yearned for death while con- juring up his life ? The ...
... young Village radical who mingled with many of the era's most influ- ential intellectuals and artists ? And how to reconcile these with the arthritic old man in Albuquerque who yearned for death while con- juring up his life ? The ...
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