In the canon
Call It Sleep
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1934
- Pages
- Pages 490
A young Jewish immigrant boy in New York's tenements is caught between a loving mother and a father who suspects he is not his own, and after years of fear touches a live third rail in the street, and lives to feel something like grace.
a quaking splendor dissolved the cobbles, the grimy structures, bleary stables, the dump-heap, river and sky into a single cymbalclash of light.
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