Генри Рот - автор 5 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: Наверное это сон, A Diving Rock on the Hudson: 2, From Bondage: Volume III of Mercy of a Rude Stream: 3. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.
Автор описывает жизнь еврейских эмигрантов в Нью-Йорке первых десятилетий XX в. сквозь призму детского восприятия.
Set in New York, Ira Stigman's life is dominated by his issues of friendship, achievement, money and above all, sex. While his friends seem paragons, his own inner landscape is a turmoil of self-loathing and guilt, born of a dark, corrosive secret.
Written in the last year of Roth's life, this is the impassioned story of a young man's love affair with literature, and with his teacher. As Ira Stigman turns from his childhood incestuous affairs, he finds himself competing with hisbest friend for the attention of their literature professor. From Bondage is theis the moving culmination of a great writer's life.
Ira Stigman's polarised life has never been more cruel. On the one side is EdithWelles, his supporter and friend , now his lover; she believes in him. On the other is his shameful immigrant origins, his poverty, his family with their arguements and lack of spohistication. Worst, there is his incestuous relations with his sister, and also hi cousin, who may be pregnant. This ...