by Henry Roth · St Martins Pr · tapa dura · ISBN 9780312104993
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«Mercy of a Rude Stream» is the novel that opens the eponymous saga by Henry Roth, published by St Martins Pr in hardcover in 1994 (290 pages, in English).
The novel follows Ira Stigman, a young Jewish immigrant in New York, and accompanies his process of Americanization between 1914 and 1921. Along the way, Prohibition, antisemitism, racism and the violence of sexuality appear, with the lives of immigrants in the Harlem neighborhood as a backdrop. It is the work of Henry Roth, author of Call It Sleep.
First volume of the Mercy of a Rude Stream saga, whose title is A Star Shines over Mt. Morris Park; first edition published in New York.
For readers of literary fiction, especially those interested in American Jewish narrative and in early 20th-century New York.
Henry Roth was an American novelist and short story writer who found success later in life after his 1934 novel Call It Sleep was reissued in paperback in 1964.
