Yuh wanna play bad?
Christopher Tayler: Henry Roth, 23 March 2006
Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth
by Steven Kellman.
Norton, 372 pp., $16.99, September 2005,0 393 05779 8 Show More
by Steven Kellman.
Norton, 372 pp., $16.99, September 2005,
“... Roth told a publisher in 1960, ‘and that is redemption, but I haven’t the fable.’ As Steven Kellman sees things, he ‘finally found his fable’ in the writing of the Mercy of a Rude Stream books, which ended the deeply-felt ignominy of his non-productive decades ‘even as it put rest to an old man’s mortal pain.’ ‘The arc of ... ”