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  • An American Type

  • By: Henry Roth
  • Narrated by: Anthony Heald
  • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
  • 3.3 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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An American Type

By: Henry Roth
Narrated by: Anthony Heald
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Publisher's summary

Discovered posthumously, this final novel by the author of the greatest American immigrant novel, Call It Sleep, reintroduces us to its protagonist, Roth’s alter ego, Ira, who abandons his controlling lover, Edith, in favor of a blond, aristocratic pianist at the artist colony Yaddo. The ensuing conflict between his Jewish ghetto roots and his high-flown, writerly aspirations forces Ira to abandon his family temporarily for the sun-soaked promise of the American West.

Fast-paced but wrenching, set against a backdrop of crumbling piers, bedbug-infested SROs, and skyscrapers in glimmering Manhattan and seedy Los Angeles, An American Type is perhaps the last firsthand testament of the Depression, as well as a universal statement about the constant reinvention of American identity and the transcendence of love.

©2010 the Henry Roth Literary Properties Trust (P)2010 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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Critic reviews

“A passionate, life-embracing conclusion to Roth’s bold and cathartic magnum opus.” ( Booklist)
“A sweeping portrait of 1930s America and the story of a writer struggling with art, love, and finding his own voice.” ( Publishers Weekly)

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