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Call It Sleep is a 1934 novel by Henry Roth. The book is about a young boy growing up in the Jewish immigrant ghetto of New York's Lower East Side in the early twentieth century.Though it earned acclaim, the book sold poorly and went out of print Read More..

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Description	Call It Sleep is a 1934 novel by Henry Roth. The book is about a young boy growing up in the Jewish immigrant ghetto of New York's Lower East Side in the early twentieth century.Though it earned acclaim, the book sold poorly and went out of print for close to 30 years. It received a second life when it was reviewed by literary critic Irving Howe on the front page of The New York Times Book Review on October 25, 1964. Its paperback edition, published by Avon, sold over a million copies. The novel was included on TIME magazine's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923.
Description	Call It Sleep is a 1934 novel by Henry Roth. The book is about a young boy growing up in the Jewish immigrant ghetto of New York's Lower East Side in the early twentieth century.Though it earned acclaim, the book sold poorly and went out of print for close to 30 years. It received a second life when it was reviewed by literary critic Irving Howe on the front page of The New York Times Book Review on October 25, 1964. Its paperback edition, published by Avon, sold over a million copies. The novel was included on TIME magazine's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923.

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Name	Call It Sleep
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Authors	Henry Roth
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Language	English
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Country	United States
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