{"product_id":"9781511317986","title":"Mercy of a Rude Stream: The Complete Novels","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis \"landmark of the American literary century\" (\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e) is finally published as one volume, appearing with a brilliant new introduction. Sixty years after the publication of his great modernist masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eCall It Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e, Henry Roth, a retired waterfowl farmer already in his late eighties, shocked the literary world with the announcement that he had written a second novel. It was called, he reported, \u003ci\u003eMercy of a Rude Stream\u003c\/i\u003e, the title inspired by Shakespeare, and it followed the travails of one Ira Stigman, whose family had just moved to New York's Jewish Harlem in that \"ominous summer of 1914.\" \"It is like hearing that…J. D. Salinger is preparing a sequel to \u003ci\u003eThe Catcher in the Rye\u003c\/i\u003e,\" the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e pronounced, while \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e extolled Roth's new work as \"the literary comeback of the century.\" Even more astonishing was that Roth had not just written a second novel but a total of four chronologically linked works, all part of \u003ci\u003eMercy of a Rude Stream\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the story unfolds, we follow the turbulent odyssey of Ira, along with his extended Jewish family, friends, and lovers, from the outbreak of World War I through his fateful decision to move into the Greenwich Village apartment of his muse and older lover, the seductive but ultimately tragic NYU professor Edith Welles. Set in both the fractured world of Jewish Harlem and the bohemian maelstrom of the Village, \u003ci\u003eMercy of a Rude Stream\u003c\/i\u003e echoes Nabokov in its portrayal of sexual deviance, and offers a harrowing and relentless family drama amid a grand panorama of New York City in the 1910s and Roaring 20s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brilliance Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055631646960,"sku":"9781511317986","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781511317986_p0.jpg?v=1763723001","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781511317986","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}