Full name: Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth

Author: Steven G. Kellman Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780393057799 0393057798

Henry Roth (1906-1995), author of the great immigrant novel Call It Sleep, is one of the giants of American literature, yet for years he has lacked a biography. After completing his first book in 1934, Roth lapsed into a legendary six-decade silence, only to reemerge with Mercy of a Rude Stream, hailed as "a landmark of the American literary century" (David Mehegan, Boston Globe) and "as provocative as anything in the chapters of St. Augustine" (Stefan Kanfer, Los Angeles Times Book Review). In following Roth's tortured life from his childhood on the Jewish Lower East Side to his twilight years in New Mexico, literary critic Steven Kellman has uncovered FBI files, spoken with family members and friends, and gained access to the tape in which Roth discussed the long-buried incest of his youth. Redemption is the Shakespearean saga of a great writer doomed to a life of psychological torment, but saved in the end by his search for deliverance. Similar books: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman The Martian by Andy Weir Wonder by R. J. Palacio It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover Matilda by Roald Dahl 1984 by George Orwell On Writing by Stephen King Ready Player One by Ernest Cline The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk