#BookoftheDay: Mercy of a Rude Stream - A Star Shines Over Mt. Morris Park (1994), A Diving Rock on the Hudson (1995), From Bondage (1996), Requiem for Harlem (1998) Author: Henry Roth Pages: 1,396 (290, 418, 397, and 291 pages respectively) "He declined the scholarship, couched his fateful renunciation in words written on another sheet of blue-lined paper, words shaped by a thick-nibbed fountain pen. He left the house with the two-cent stamp affixed to the sealed letter, and mailed it in in the wide-mouthed slot of the cast-iron letter box on the corner lamppost opposite Biolov's drugstore. The counterweighted lip uttered a cast-iron snicker as the letter box engulfed the white envelope." (A Diving Rock on the Hudson, p. 252) #MercyofaRudeStream #HenryRoth #AStarShinesOverMtMorrisPark #ADivingRockontheHudson #FromBondage #RequiemforHarlem #novel