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Call it Sleep by Henry Roth
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.53David Schearl arrives in New York in his mother's arms to begin his new life as an immigrant in the 'Golden Land'. David is hated by his father - an angry, violent man unable to find his niche in the... -
Call It Sleep by Henry Roth 9780312424121
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £21.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312424121Author Henry RothFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint -
An American Type: A Novel by Henry Roth 9780393339925
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.32This "glorious, evocative, literary novel for the ages" (Los Angeles Times) has finally taken its place within the great canon of American fiction. Set during the Great Depression, against a backdrop... -
Requiem For Harlem: Mercy Of A Rude Stream Volume 4 - `A masterpiece, not remotely like anything else in American literature' by Henry Roth
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £3.39'A landmark of the American literary century' Boston Globe Sixty years after the publication of his great modernist masterpiece, Call It Sleep, Henry Roth returned with Mercy of a Rude Stream - a... -
From Bondage: Mercy Of A Rude Stream Volume 3 - `A masterpiece, not remotely like anything else in American literature' by Henry Roth
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £4.01'A landmark of the American literary century' Boston Globe Sixty years after the publication of his great modernist masterpiece, Call It Sleep, Henry Roth returned with Mercy of a Rude Stream - a... -
A Diving Rock on The Hudson: Mercy Of A Rude Stream Volume 2 - 'A masterpiece, not remotely like anything else in American literature' Henry Roth 9781857993561
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'A landmark of the American literary century' Boston Globe Sixty years after the publication of his great modernist masterpiece, Call It Sleep, Henry Roth returned with Mercy of a Rude Stream - a... -
Political Science and the Problem of Social Order by Henrik Enroth 9781009096409
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.45Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
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From Bondage: Mercy Of A Rude Stream Volume 3 - `A masterpiece, not remotely like anything else in American literature' by Henry Roth 9780753800041 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.40'A landmark of the American literary century' Boston Globe Sixty years after the publication of his great modernist masterpiece, Call It Sleep, Henry Roth returned with Mercy of a Rude Stream - a... -
Imogen Cunningham - A Retrospective by Paul Martineau
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £33.63Thoroughly researched and beautifully produced, this catalogue complements the first comprehensive retrospective in the United States of Imogen Cunningham's work in over thirty-five years. ... -
Consuming Silences: How We Read Authors Who Don't Publish by Myles Weber 9780820326993
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £27.95J. D. Salinger was an author in 1951 when he published The Catcher in the Rye. Is he one now? Was Henry Roth an author during the sixty years that separated Call It Sleep, his literary debut, from... -
Ethnic Passages: Literary Immigrants in Twentieth-Century America by Thomas J. Ferraro 9780226244426
Booksplease Price: £30.43Ethnic literature figures prominently in the current debate on multiculturalism, but even its supporters have had little to say about it as literature, stressing instead its political and... -
Fat Time and Other Stories Jeffery Renard Allen 9781644452394
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.73In Fat Time and Other Stories, Jimi Hendrix, Francis Bacon, the boxer Jack Johnson, Miles Davis, and a space-age Muhammad Ali find themselves in the otherworldly hands of Jeffery Renard Allen,... -
The Red Heifer: A Novel by Leo Haber 9780815608363
Booksplease Price: £9.18The main character of Leo Haber's debut novel grows to sexual and social awareness amid old-world Yiddish-speaking rabbis, new-world mobsters, Jewish non-believers, musicians, ballplayers, and new... -
Jews Without Money by Michael Gold 9780786713455
Booksplease Price: £14.40As a writer and political activist in early-twentieth-century America, Michael Gold was an important presence on the American cultural scene for more than three decades. Beginning in the 1920s his... -
How the Other Half Looks: The Lower East Side and the Afterlives of Images by Sara Blair 9780691202877
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.40How New York's Lower East Side inspired new ways of seeing AmericaNew York City's Lower East Side, long viewed as the space of what Jacob Riis notoriously called the "other half," was also a crucible... -
Strangers at Home: American Ethnic Modernism between the World Wars by Rita Keresztesi 9780803227675
Booksplease Price: £55.62Strangers at Home reframes the way we conceive of the modernist literature that appeared in the period between the two world wars. This provocative work shows that a body of texts written by ethnic... -
Haunted in the New World: Jewish American Culture from Cahan to <I>The Goldbergs</I> by Donald Weber
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.44"Haunted in the New World is a superb, insightful, and acutely intelligent piece of work. It makes a real contribution to the understanding of ethnicity in general and Jewish American culture in... -
Red Cavalry and Other Stories by Isaac Babel
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to be free of them. This duality of vision infuses his work with a... -
Whatever Happened to Frankie King by Jay Neugeboren 9781637790779
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.69Frankie King was a precocious student and a promising basketball player at Brooklyn's James Madison High School in the early 1950s. Sportswriters were comparing Frankie to the greatest college and... -
The Contract with God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue by Will Eisner 9780393061055
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £30.74Will Eisner (1917-2005) saw himself as "a graphic witness reporting on life, death, heartbreak, and the never-ending struggle to prevail." The publication of A Contract With God when Eisner was... -
Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity by Jonathan Freedman 9780231142786
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.76Klezmer is a continually evolving musical tradition that grows out of Eastern European Jewish culture, and its changes reflect Jews' interaction with other groups as well as their shifting relations... -
How the Other Half Looks: The Lower East Side and the Afterlives of Images by Sara Blair 9780691172224
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £33.18How New York's Lower East Side inspired new ways of seeing AmericaNew York City's Lower East Side, long viewed as the space of what Jacob Riis notoriously called the "other half," was also a crucible... -
A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government by Sean McCann
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £51.87There is no more powerful symbol in American political life than the presidency, and the image of presidential power has had no less profound an impact on American fiction. A Pinnacle of Feeling is... -
Unsettling: Jews, Whiteness, and Incest in American Popular Culture by Eli Bromberg 9781978807280
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £98.40By analyzing how various media told stories about Jewish celebrities and incest, Unsettling illustrates how Jewish community protective politics impacted the representation of white male Jewish... -
The Cold Millions by Jess Walter
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'A beautiful, lyric hymn to the power of social unrest in American history...funny and harrowing, sweet and violent, innocent and experienced; it walks a dozen tightropes' Anthony Doerr, author of... -
Unsettling: Jews, Whiteness, and Incest in American Popular Culture by Eli Bromberg
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40By analyzing how various media told stories about Jewish celebrities and incest, Unsettling illustrates how Jewish community protective politics impacted the representation of white male Jewish... -
The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language by Ilan Stavans
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.38A riveting, one-of-a-kind anthology of the diversity, strangeness, and power of American English that features a tremendous array of letters, poems, memoir, jeremiads, stories, songs, documents, and...