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The Street

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Title Author Publisher Format Language Page Count Illustrator ISBN 13/10 Publish Date
The Street Ann Petry Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Paperback English 400 Tayari Jones 9780358187547, 0358187540 2020

 

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Weight 1.1 lbs
Dimensions 8 × 1 × 5.31 in

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SKU: 9780358187547 Categories: , Tags: , Product ID: 19424

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With a new introduction from New York Times best-selling author Tayari Jones, The Street was Ann Petry’s first novel, originally published in 1946 and hailed by critics as a masterwork.
The Street tells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late 1940s.
Lutie is confronted by racism, sexism, and classism on a daily basis in her pursuit of the American dream for herself and her son, Bub. Lutie fully subscribes to the belief that if she follows the adages of Benjamin Franklin by working hard and saving wisely, she will be able to achieve the dream of being financially independent.
The first novel by an African-Am…|With a new introduction from New York Times best-selling author Tayari Jones, The Street was Ann Petry’s first novel, originally published in 1946 and hailed by critics as a masterwork.
The Street tells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late 1940s.
Lutie is confronted by racism, sexism, and classism on a daily basis in her pursuit of the American dream for herself and her son, Bub. Lutie fully subscribes to the belief that if she follows the adages of Benjamin Franklin by working hard and saving wisely, she will be able to achieve the dream of being financially independent.
The first novel by an African-American woman to sell more than a million copies, its haunting tale still resonates today.
“Petry is the writer we have been waiting for; hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate the questions of our moment, while also offering a page-turning good time. Ann Petry, the woman, had it all, and so does her insightful, prescient and unputdownable prose.”–Tayari Jones, New York Times Book Review|The Street is a novel published in 1946 by African-American writer Ann Petry. Set in World War II era Harlem, it centers on the life of Lutie Johnson. Petry’s novel is a commentary on the social injustices that confronted her character, Lutie Johnson, as a single black mother in this time period.

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