Description: This "landmark of the American literary century" (Boston Globe) is finally published as one volume, appearing with a brilliant new introduction.
Brief description: Henry Roth (1906-1995) spent his early years on Manhattan's Lower East Side. In 1914, the Roth family moved to Jewish Harlem. Roth died in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Review Quotes: Henry Roth has only two peers in American-English Jewish fiction, Nathanael West and Philip Roth.--Harold Bloom