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[Peter Trachtenberg]

On Thu, 5 Oct 1995 grip at netcom.com wrote:

> Some years ago I recall reading a book that impressed me at the time. 
> (Lots of things impressed me then!) It was "Call It Sleep" by someone 
> named Roth, I think. Has anyone else read it? I don't recall seeing 
> anything else by him. What's your take on it?
> 
> grip
> 
> I've read Henry Roth's "Call it Sleep" and was awed and moved by it. 
It's one of the great realist novels and a very good--though 
brutal--portrait of Jewish immigrant society. Roth didn't publish again 
for almost fifty years. Last year, at the age of 80-something, he 
published a memoirish novel whose title has the phrase "From a 
[Something] Stream in it. I haven't read it. There was a big piece on him 
in Vanity Fair a year or two ago. He now lives in the Southwest. >