An American Type

Roth's modernist novel about a young Jewish immigrant growing up in the slums of the Lower East Side during the depression, Call It Sleep, was published in 1934 and achieved popular status when it was republished 30 years later. In the meantime, Roth had an attack of writer's block that lasted until......more

Risen from the dead, Henry Roth continues to write, edit, polish, and publish. …Not exactly. Ushering this novel through publication was the work of an admiring New Yorker editor who took a long sabbatical to cull a solid chunk of Roth’s remaining 1700 pages of notes and narrative to form this novel......more

This novel about a writer who, after writing a successful novel, is unable to write another (like Mr. Roth) is a series of episodes laid out in chronological sequence. I read it as a character study of a man who is unable to face difficulties and consequently is swept passively along by events. When......more

A moderately engrossing book about an extremely pathetic man.......more

Wasted my time reading this book. I should have taken heed of other reviews on this site.......more