
From Bondage
Henry Roth
Henry Roth completed this transcendent novel before his death on October 13, 1995. As Tolstoy presaged his own passing in The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Roth examines his own imminent death in the most lyrical of ways, telling the story of the elderly writer, Ira Stigman, who in spite of his physical frailties, finds solace and redemption through the re-creation of the fascinating love triangle of his youth. Capturing the dizzying vitality of the 1920s and the literary world of Manhattan, Roth has set the stage for one of the most memorable literary romances of this century.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Picador
- Year
- 1997
- ISBN-13
- 9780312155322
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topics
- Mortality and agingMemory and autobiographyLove and romance in 1920s New York
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(1996)
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