Ann Petry

Broschiertes Buch

The Street

Beschreibung

The first book by a black women to sell over one million copies - this gripping novel from 1946 is as prescient and powerful today as when it was first published. Now reissued as part of the Virago Modern Classics Green Spine design.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Virago Modern Classics
• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 124mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 328g
• ISBN-13: 9780349019635
• ISBN-10: 0349019630
• Artikelnr.: 70943611

Rezensionen

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 . . . I just can't figure out why this work is not more widely read and celebrated . . . Sometimes when a writer is regarded as "before her time" we don't quite understand that the same work is still right on time. 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 New York Times