70772X1 First Edition. W. W. Norton, New York: 2005. 371 pages. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. Chronicling the mysterious life of one of the most extraordinary American writers of the twentieth century, Redemption tells us the revelatory story of Henry Roth, whose first work, Call It Sleep, is regarded as the finest novel of the American immigrant experience. Mush has been written about Roth's inestimable contribution to American literature, but Redemption is the first book that traces Roth's unique story - from his birth in 1906 in a virtual shtetl in the disintegrating Astro-Hungarian Empire to his phoenix-like emergence as a literary curiosity in New Mexico just before his death in 1995. Includes an Index. "Henry Roth has only two peers in American-English Jewish fiction, Nathanael West and Philip Roth. Steven G. Kellman's poignant and skill biography is worthy of Roth; it memorializes the ultimately productive existence that fused its suffering into authentic aesthetic dignity." - Harold Bloom ISBN: 0393057798 $15.49USD
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