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David Schearl arrives in New York in his mother''s arms to begin his new life as an immigrant in the ''Golden Land''. David is hated by his father - an angry, violent man unable to find his niche in the New World - but is fiercely loved and protected by his Yiddish-speaking mother. An innovative, multi-lingual novel, Call It Sleep subtly interweaves the overwhelming love between a mother and son with the terrors and anxieties David experiences, as he seeks to find his own identity amidst the cultural disarray of early twentieth-century America.

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    A Paperback / softback by Henry Roth, Alfred Kazin

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 05/10/2006
      ISBN13: 9780141188652, 978-0141188652
      ISBN10: 0141188650
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      Book Synopsis
      David Schearl arrives in New York in his mother''s arms to begin his new life as an immigrant in the ''Golden Land''. David is hated by his father - an angry, violent man unable to find his niche in the New World - but is fiercely loved and protected by his Yiddish-speaking mother. An innovative, multi-lingual novel, Call It Sleep subtly interweaves the overwhelming love between a mother and son with the terrors and anxieties David experiences, as he seeks to find his own identity amidst the cultural disarray of early twentieth-century America.

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