A Diving Rock on the Hudson (v. 2) - Couverture rigide

Roth, Henry

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0297816012 ISBN 13 : 9780297816010

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995

Synopsis

Set in New York, Ira Stigman's life is dominated by his issues of friendship, achievement, money and above all, sex. While his friends seem paragons, his own inner landscape is a turmoil of self-loathing and guilt, born of a dark, corrosive secret.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The second novel in the internationally acclaimed six-volume sequence which began with MERCY OF A RUDE STREAM. Ira Stigman, now an adolescent in 1920s New York, is on the rack. All his friends seem to be paragons of achievement and sophistication, while his own life bears the taint of an impoverished immigrant background. Work on the trolleycars and selling soda at Yankee Stadium introduces him to an underworld of corruption and petty thieving, and all his choices seem to be the wrong ones. Worst of all, within his own family exists a temptation so dark that it has corroded Ira's very soul. A DIVING ROCK ON THE HUDSON is fearless in its depiction of a young man in the lower depths, yet in its glimpses of redemption it offers hope with the power of literature as a force for comprehension and forgiveness.

Biographie de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0297816012
• ISBN 13: 9780297816010
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible