An American Type

“His early novel Call It Sleep was his Ulysses . His late work An American Type is his Grapes of Wrath .”—Thane Rosenbaum, Los Angeles Times This “glorious, evocative, literary novel for the ages” ( Los Angeles Times ) has finally taken its place within the great canon of American fiction. Set during the Great Depression, against a backdrop of New York’s glimmering skyscrapers and Los Angeles’s seedy motor courts, this autobiographical work concludes the unparalleled saga of Henry Roth, whose cl