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Call It Sleep

A Novel

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Call It Sleep

By: Henry Roth
Narrated by: George Guidall
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Lauded as the most profound novel of Jewish life ever written by an American, Call It Sleep seamlessly weaves together the searing pains and subtle joys of immigrant life in New York’s Lower East Side. It is the story of David Schearl, a dangerously imaginative little boy who arrives from Eastern Europe in 1907. Shock by shock, he is exposed to the blows - and occasional pleasures - of life in the crowded tenements.

©1962 Henry Roth (P)1994 Recorded Books, LLC Jewish Heritage Literary Fiction Coming of Age Classics Historical Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction
Powerful Novel • Psychological Exploration • Masterful Reading • Touching Story • Beautiful Details • Strong Indication

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Excellent narrator who captured the Yiddish and the Hebrew perfectly.
I would highly recommend this modernist story which seems so autobiographical!

Great book

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Fabulous story and narration. Guidall is unsurpassed in expressing the various voices of characters and Yiddish and Hebrew accents.

Brilliant

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could have read all of this book since there are times it does go into long strange almost incoherent dialog BUT to hear Guidall read it kept me hooked. He did a magnificent job with the accents and pronunciations of the Yiddish dialect.
If people had been able to listen to the performance when it came out in 1935 (?), it most certainly would be one of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, IMO/

masterful reading by George Guidall...i doubt I...

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This is an amazing book that will touch your heart in a way very few books do. It has haunted me for years - this is the second time I am listening to the audiobook. The reader George Guidall is a master and brings the characters to life.

An unforgettable book.

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i read this book in the 1960's. it had been written and released in the 1930's to good reviews but little readership. those of us who were in our 20's in the 1960's have never forgotten it...incredibly well written, painfully living the world of the child in a strange land, that of an immigrant child and of childhood itself. i was spellbound listening to george guidall's amazing reading. this is a classic american novel.

brilliant

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