
Irving Howe
et al.
Published online:
22 January 2015
Published in print:
28 October 2014
Online ISBN:
9780300210583
Print ISBN:
9780300203660
Contents
Cite
Howe, Irving (ed.), 'Life Never Let Up: Review of Call It Sleep {1964}', in Nina Howe (ed.), A Voice Still Heard: Selected Essays of Irving Howe (New Haven, CT , 2014; online edn, Yale Scholarship Online, 22 Jan. 2015), https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300203660.003.0005, accessed 15 May 2025.
Abstract
This chapter presents Irving Howe's 1964 review of Call It Sleep, a novel by Henry Roth that chronicles the experiences of a young boy growing up in the Jewish immigrant ghetto of New York's Lower East Side in the early twentieth century. The boy, David Schearl, arrives in New York with his parents, who are Jews, and promptly experiences the hardships of living in the slums. Howe praises the consistently strong writing in Call It Sleep and commends Roth for the way he renders varieties of speech. He adds that the novel ends without any explicit moral statement.
Keywords:
novel, Irving Howe, Call It Sleep, Henry Roth, ghetto, New York, Lower East Side, Jews, slums
Subject
Literary Studies (American)
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