The Street
$24.99
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
14 January 2020
Summary
FROM A BESTSELLING AUTHOR
With a new introduction by TAYARI JONES, author of *An American Marriage*
‘The prose is clear, the plot is page-turning, the characters are utterly believable’ CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
‘The first book by a black woman to sell more than a million copies’ *NEW YORK TIMES*
‘My favourite type of novel, literary with an astonishing plot’ TAYARI JONES
<…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349012933 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0349012938 |
| Author: | Ann Petry |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 14 January 2020 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 32mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
The Street is my favorite type of novel, literary with an astonishing plot … Petry engages the issues of her day, which sadly are the issues of our day as well. At every turn, Lutie confronts that many-headed hydra of racism, sexism and classism … For Lutie there is no #MeToo movement. Ronan Farrow will not be calling her for a quote. Her experience more than fifty years ago is very similar to that of women today who are poor and of color. She must save herself, understanding that there will be devastating consequences for standing her ground … I just can’t figure out why this work is not more widely read and celebrated. After such a stunning reception in the 1940s, why hasn’t this novel become a college staple? - New York Times
A powerful, uncompromising work of social criticism. To this day, few works of fiction have so clearly illuminated the devastating impact of racial injusticeAnn Petry’s first novel, The Street, was a literary event in 1946, praised and translated around the world - the first book by a black woman to sell more than a million copies … Her work endures not merely because of the strength of its message but its artistry … Petry will always feel on time. Her kind of talent will always feel startling and sui generis: The music of her sentences, and their discipline; her unerring sense of psychology; the fullness with which she endows each character, which must be understood as a kind of love; the plots that commandeer whole hours and days. (I am writing this review in a swivet of shame, in fact, in the baleful eyeline of an unwalked dog, unwashed dishes, unanswered emails.) Her work endures not only because it illuminates reality, but because it harnesses the power of fiction to supplant it. - New York TimesAbout The Author
Ann Petry
Ann Petry (1908-1997), novelist and writer of short stories and books for young people, was one of America’s most distinguished authors. Her first published story appeared in 1943 in the Crisis. She then began on her first novel, The Street, which was published in 1946 and for which she received the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship. Petry wrote two more novels, The Country Place and The Narrows, and numerous short stories, articles and children’s books.
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