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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Call It Sleep (Penguin Modern Classics)by: Henry Roth  EAN: 9780141188652 Format: Import ISBN: 0141188650 Label: Penguin Classics Manufacturer: Penguin Classics Number Of Pages: 464 Publication Date: October 05, 2006 Publisher: Penguin Classics Studio: Penguin Classics Related Items:
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 Rating:  - insight to an eraAfter hearing about this book from the movie "The Stone Reader" I couldn't wait to get my hands on it. It is a wonderful insight to an era in America for immigrants. I loved spending time with the characters even when I didn't like some of them. The prose was beautiful to read as a translation from the yiddish and polish, the reading was hard and slow when spoken in the characters broken english. It is a great read and a good reminder to all of us what it was like to be an immigrant, young, ... Read More Rating: - DittoI don't know what more I can add to the fine reviews already written here, other than to say, "Ditto." This is a truly literary novel, a small vignette in the big picture depicted in our American tapestry of culture, race and religion. It is a stark depiction at times, and at times disturbing, but the image created rings true, as do the characters. Highly recommended for the intellectual reader. Rating: - An undeniable classicWhen Henry Roth's novel Call it Sleep was published in 1934 it was hailed by some critics and readers as a minor masterpiece. Indeed, this is one of the best novels about our immigrant experience. Mr. Roth's compassion for his characters, his intense narrative force, and his wonderful ear for dialectic speech and poetry is evident throughout Call it Sleep. A simple story of an immigrant Jewish family during the years 1911 to about 1913, it centers on a boy named David Schearl, who lives on the Lower East ... Read More Rating: - Perhaps the best American novel in the 20th centuryA reading group I belong to suggested Gatsby as the best American novel. It is very fine, but I retorted that Call It Sleep was finer -- then I ordered it and read it again after 40 years. I stick with my opinion. Rating: - Depict one character perfectly; the rest will follow.Henry Roth wants to do two things well in this book: first, accurately describe the experience of being a child -- not a tough, bully-type child, but a shy kid with no friends. (I can relate.) Secondly, he wants to capture the language spoken by native New Yorkers and by immigrants to the city. It might be best to explain the book's trick as "inside versus outside." Most of the time, we stand in a position of semi-omniscience, much like in Crime and Punishment: while the godlike narrator in Crime ... Read More 
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