Mercy and Responsibility in Henry Roth’s Mercy of a Rude Stream

Mercy and Responsibility in Henry Roth’s Mercy of a Rude Stream

  By Ronald Bleier.     If there is a list somewhere of great American novels, Henry Roth’s remarkably accessible and powerful masterpiece, Mercy of a Rude Stream, must surely be at, or near, the top.  Mercy is Roth’s massive, [...]