Call it Sleep (1934)

by Henry Roth

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lxydis | May 11, 2013 |

Interesting novel about the immigrant experience in 1900s NY. However, it was hard to read a mix of Yiddish, Hebrew and street english. Overly long and I started skipping towards the end as nothing much happens. (

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VictoriaNH | May 7, 2013 |

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cavlibrary | Apr 19, 2013 |

Such a fascinating study of Jewish immigrants to the US in the early 1900's. What a shame it was marred with an obsession with sex. There's a reason I stopped watching Woody Allen movies after he screwed his step daughter. There's more to life than sex and compliant women placating their violent men. (

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Citizenjoyce | Feb 13, 2013 |

Didn't like it as much as something like A Walker in the City or City Boy, but still definitely worth reading.

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Call it Sleep

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1934

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David Schearl

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New York, New York, USA

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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2006/2008/2010 Edition)

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To Eda Lou Walton

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Standing before the kitchen sink and regarding the bright brass faucets that gleamed so far away, each with a bead of water at its nose, slowly swelling, falling, David again became aware that this world had been created without thought of him.

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When Henry Roth published his debut novel Call It Sleep in 1934, it was greeted with considerable critical acclaim though, in those troubled times, lackluster sales. Only with its paperback publication thirty years later did this novel receive the recognition it deserves—--and still enjoys. Having sold-to-date millions of copies worldwide, Call It Sleep is the magnificent story of David Schearl, the “dangerously imaginative” child coming of age in the slums of New York.

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