1994, ISBN: 9781441749567

The author of the greatest American immigrant novel, Call It Sleep, returns with this posthumous work. Henry Roth's final novel, An American Type, is nothing short of a miracle, a lyrical… More...

The author of the greatest American immigrant novel, Call It Sleep, returns with this posthumous work. Henry Roth's final novel, An American Type, is nothing short of a miracle, a lyrical work of immense poignancy from a writer whose biographical story has no parallel in American literature. Roth, best known for his towering immigrant novel Call It Sleep, emerged from a literary hibernation of 60 years in 1994 with Mercy of a Rude Stream, a fictional The author of the greatest American immigrant novel, Call It Sleep, returns with this posthumous work. Henry Roth's final novel, An American Type, is nothing short of a miracle, a lyrical work of immense poignancy from a writer whose biographical story has no parallel in American literature. Roth, best known for his towering immigrant novel Call It Sleep, emerged from a literary hibernation of 60 years in 1994 with Mercy of a Rude Stream, a fictional quartet that would be hailed by as "a landmark of the American literary century." In contrast to Roth's previous novels, An American Type is a both a love story and a lamentation, the final fruit of nearly 2,000 unpublished pages that Roth composed in the last years of his life. The manuscript rested undisturbed in an office file for over a decade before it was sent to Willing Davidson, then a young assistant in the Fiction Department of The New Yorker, who with a "growing sense of discovery and elation," recognized that this unpublished manuscript possessed "astonishing vigor."Set in the dire year of 1938, the novel reintroduces us to Roth's alter-ego, Ira Stigman, a 32-year-old novelist, eager to assimilate but psychologically traumatized by the scars of his impoverished immigrant past. Restless with his older lover and literary mentor, the renowned English professor, Edith Welles, whose obsessive love has crippled him, Ira, a "slum-born Yiddle," journeys to Yaddo, the famed writer's colony, where he meets a blond, aristocratic pianist, whose inherent nobility and "calm, Anglo-Saxon radiance" engages him. The ensuing romantic crisis, as well as the conflict between his ghetto Jewish roots and the bourgeois comforts of Manhattan, forces Ira to abandon the comforts of his paramour's Greenwich Village apartment. In his relentless search to become a writer, a husband and an Books, Fiction~~General, American-Type~~Henry-Roth, , , , , , , , , , Blackstone Audio, Inc.<

ISBN: 144174956X

Audio Cassette, [EAN: 9781441749567], Audiobook, Blackstone Audiobooks, Blackstone Audiobooks, Book, [PU: Blackstone Audiobooks], Blackstone Audiobooks, 62, Fiction, 275035, Adventure Sto… More...

Audio Cassette, [EAN: 9781441749567], Audiobook, Blackstone Audiobooks, Blackstone Audiobooks, Book, [PU: Blackstone Audiobooks], Blackstone Audiobooks, 62, Fiction, 275035, Adventure Stories & Action, 275116, Anthologies, 426316031, Biographical Fiction, 590912, Classics, 590756, Contemporary Fiction, 72, Crime, Thrillers & Mystery, 275040, Erotica, 275050, Family Sagas, 279254, Fantasy, 598310, Film & Television Tie-In, 590800, Gay & Lesbian, 10790401, Historical, 63, Horror, 426359031, Humour, 590930, Lad Lit, 590934, Literary Fiction, 426309031, Medical, 590794, Metaphysical & Visionary, 275053, Myths & Fairy Tales, 426362031, Poetry & Drama, 590796, Political, 426310031, Psychological, 275054, Religious & Inspirational, 88, Romance, 279292, Science Fiction, 275380, Short Stories, 590792, Sport, 275060, War, 275065, Westerns, 590760, Women Writers & Fiction, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books<

ISBN: 144174956X

Hörkassette, [EAN: 9781441749567], Audiobook, Blackstone Audio Books, Englisch, Englisch, Englisch, Blackstone Audio Books, Book, Blackstone Audio Books, Blackstone Audio Books, 67216011,… More...

Hörkassette, [EAN: 9781441749567], Audiobook, Blackstone Audio Books, Englisch, Englisch, Englisch, Blackstone Audio Books, Book, Blackstone Audio Books, Blackstone Audio Books, 67216011, Populäre Belletristik, 67221011, Action & Abenteuer, 67916011, Anthologien, 67220011, Buch zum Film, 67923011, Familiensagen, 67924011, Historisch, 67223011, Horror, 67926011, Krieg, 273042011, Medizin, 273043011, Metaphysisch, 67925011, Männerabenteuer, 67219011, Märchen, 67217011, Politisch, 55229011, Religion & Esoterik, 65642011, Schwul & Lesbisch, 1322750031, Seeabenteuer, 67218011, Sport, 67927011, Western, 66034011, Belletristik, 54071011, Genres, 52044011, Fremdsprachige Bücher, 208625031, Hörkassette, 310998031, Hörbuch, 208621031, Format (binding_browse-bin), 366250011, Refinements, 52044011, Fremdsprachige Bücher<