Henry Roth's Posthumous Novel 'An American Type' Published After New Yorker Editor 'Quarried' 1,900 Page Manuscript

The New York Times:

The writer Henry Roth was a tortured, hard-luck case who at the end life enjoyed an unexpected redemption. Blocked for decades, full of doubt and self-loathing, he began writing again in his late 80s, even though crippled by rheumatoid arthritis, and finished four new novels, two of which he lived to see into print before his death in 1995. Now, almost miraculously, there is a fifth, "An American Type," which W. W. Norton will publish on June 7.

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Comments

[ESerafina42]

11:10 AM on 05/24/2010

Another bad headline. It's not a "posthumous novel" unless he *wrote* it after his death. It's the *publication" that's posthumous.