Call It Sleep

Call It SleepLargely ignored when it first appeared in 1934, Call It Sleep was republished in 1964 to overwhelming acclaim and rose immediately to the top of the bestseller lists, selling over a million copies. Today it is universally recognized as a masterpiece of American fiction, and has been hailed by Alfred Kazin as "the most profound novel of Jewish life by an American". Although written in English, it mixes the language of the streets with the Yiddish of

was issued simultaneously with the scholarly trade edition

His work is in public and private collections internationally

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but for much of the world through his two most influential books Animal Farm(1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

is one of the most handsome publications ever produced in the United States

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This is the first publication of a unique artist book made by the artist Jess Collins in San Francisco in 1957

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the leading scholar of the finer points of Nabokov’s verse)

by one of my dearest dead friends

He is the principal author of the Nemesis theory on the extinction of the dinosaurs