From Bondage (Mercy of a Rude Stream, Volume III) - Hardcover

Roth, Henry

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9780312143411: From Bondage (Mercy of a Rude Stream, Volume III)

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ISBN 10: 0312143419 ISBN 13: 9780312143411

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1996

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An elderly, physically frail writer, Ira Stigman finds solace, redemption, and peace as he recreates a love triangle of his youth, in a poignant tale of spiritual self-examination set against the backdrop of 1920s literary Manhattan. First serial, The New York Times Magazine.

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After the publication of his first novel, Call It Sleep, at the tender age of 28 in 1934, Henry Roth fell into a writer's block that lasted more than 40 years. He began writing again in the 1970s and Mercy of a Rude Stream, intended to be a six-volume series, is the result. A chronicle of the life of Ira Stigman, the first two volumes, A Star Shines Over Mt. Morris Park and A Diving Rock on the Hudson, were published in 1994 and 1995. Roth died in October of 1995, and the posthumously published From Bondage is the third in the series. Though the novel is full of observations and events from Roth's life, he was adamant before his death that this third volume was not autobiographical.

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In 1994 Henry Roth broke his sixty-year literary silence following his classic novel CALL IT SLEEP, with the publication of volume one of MERCY OF A RUDE STREAM, called A STAR SHINES OVER MT. MORRIS PARK. This four-volume series was hailed as 'unsurpassable' in the annals of twentieth-century American literature. Henry Roth died aged 89 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in October 1995.

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