Category - Fiction / African American Fiction
Format - Paperback
Condition - Excellent
Listed - 16 days ago
Ships From - Maryland
Est. Publication Date - Mar 1998
Seller Description
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. Originally published in 1946 and hailed by critics as a masterwork, The Street was Ann Petry's first novel, a beloved bestseller with more than a million copies in print. Its haunting tale still resonates today.
Additional Information
The Street
ISBN: 9780395901496
Publisher Description
Explores the life and dreams of a young woman who struggles to raise her son in a suffocating ghetto world of racism, human degradation, and uncontrolled violence
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