An American type
Subtitle: a novel
By: Henry Roth ; edited by Willing Davidson
Contributors: Davidson, Willing
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780393077759
Subjects: Fiction; Authors; Reminiscing in old age; Yaddo (Artist's colony); History
Description: Set in the dire year of 1938, Ira Stigman journeys to the famed artists' colony Yaddo, where he meets a blond, aristocratic pianist whose "calm, Anglo-Saxon radiance" engages him.The conflict with his ghetto Jewish roots forces Ira to set out on an illusionary quest for the promise of the American West.