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The Street
Reader Score
85%
85% of readers
recommend this book
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
Book Details
- Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
- Publish Date: Jan 7th, 2020
- Pages: 400
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.20in - 1.30in - 0.70lb
- EAN: 9780358187547
- Recommended age: 14-UP
- Categories: • Literary• African American & Black - Women• Classics
About the Author
Ann Petry was the acclaimed author of the adult novel The Street, a groundbreaking literary work about life in Harlem, which sold over a million copies. She also wrote several books for young readers, including Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad, the story of the courageous and heroic woman who struggled and fought for her people before and during the Civil War.
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What people are saying
Brandon Taylor is an author.
Also I know I always say her, but Ann Petry's The Street is like. Also an incredible novel that is at once Woolfian and Tolstoyan and utterly American in its idiom and it is a perfect book and I think of it OFTEN.
Pamela Paul is an opinion columnist at the New York Times.
Our May pick for the Now Read This book club: Ann Petry's THE STREET, featuring Tayari Jones https://t.co/yEHxhDCOEd
"This book should be grouped with Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and Toni Morrison’s Jazz as masterpieces by and about Black women. It’s a classic and should be regarded as such."
Praise for this book
"A major literary invention . . . A truly great book." --The Los Angeles Times "Overflows with the classic pity and terror of good imaginative writing." --The 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 injustice." --Coretta Scott King "A classic of American realism . . . The Street rushes toward its fatalistic climax like a train toward a washed-out bridge." --Newsday --