From Bondage: Mercy Of A Rude Stream Volume 3 - ‘A masterpiece, not remotely like anything else in American literature’

From Bondage: Mercy Of A Rude Stream Volume 3 - ‘A masterpiece, not remotely like anything else in American literature’

by HenryRoth (Author)

Synopsis

Written in the last year of Roth's life, this is the impassioned story of a young man's love affair with literature, and with his teacher. As Ira Stigman turns from his incestuous childhood affairs, he finds himself competing with his best friend for the attention of their literature professor. FROM BONDAGE is the the moving culmination of a great writer's life.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 07 Jul 1997

ISBN 10: 0753800047
ISBN 13: 9780753800041
Book Overview: The internationally-acclaimed, defintive account of immigrant life in early-twentieth century New York.

Author Bio
In 1994 Henry Roth broke his sixty-year literary silence following his classic novel CALL IT SLEEP, with the publication of volume one of MERCY OF A RUDE STREAM, called A STAR SHINES OVER MT. MORRIS PARK. This four-volume series was hailed as 'unsurpassable' in the annals of twentieth-century American literature. Henry Roth died aged 89 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in October 1995.