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This "landmark of the American literary hundred years" (Boston Globe) is finally publicized as one volume level, appearing with a brilliant new launch. Sixty years after the publication of his great modernist masterpiece, Call It Sleeping, Henry Roth, a retired waterfowl farmer already in his past due eighties, shocked the literary world with the announcement that he previously written another novel. It had been called, he reported, Mercy of the Rude Stream, the title inspired by Shakespeare, and it followed the travails of 1 Ira Stigman, whose family got just migrated to New York's Jewish Harlem for the reason that "ominous summer months of 1914". "It really is like hearing that... J. D. Salinger is organizing a sequel to The Catcher in the Rye," the New York Times Book Review pronounced, while Vanity Fair extolled Roth's new are "the literary return of the hundred years." Even more astonishing was that Roth got not merely written another novel but a complete of four chronologically associated works, all part of Mercy of the Rude Stream. As the storyline unfolds, we follow the turbulent odyssey of Ira, along with his expanded Jewish family, friends, and fans, from the outbreak of World War I through his fateful decision to go into the Greenwich Village apartment of his muse and older lover, the seductive but in the end tragic NYU teacher Edith Welles. Set in both fractured world of Jewish Harlem and the bohemian maelstrom of the Village, Mercy of the Rude Stream echoes Nabokov in its portrayal of erotic deviance, and offers a harrowing and relentless family crisis amid a grand panorama of New York City in the 1910s and Roaring 20s.
