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David Schearl arrives in New York in his mother's arms to begin his new life as an immigrant. David is hated by his father, but is fiercely loved and protected by his Yiddish-speaking mother. This novel interweaves the love between a mother and son with the terrors and anxieties David experiences, as he seeks to find his own identity.

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.

'The Ur-novel at the heart of American literature - Mercy of a Rude Stream is a towering achievement' Junot Diaz 'Henry Roth has only two peers in American-English Jewish fiction, Nathanael West and Philip Roth' Harold BloomThe second novel in the internationally acclaimed six-volume sequence which began with MERCY OF A RUDE STREAM

This "landmark of the American literary century" (Boston Globe) is finally published as one volume, appearing with a brilliant new introduction.

"His early novel Call It Sleep was his Ulysses. His late work An American Type is his Grapes of Wrath."-Thane Rosenbaum, Los Angeles Times