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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: Mar 1998
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $15.99
Pages: 448
“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 ReviewThe Street follows the spirited Lutie Johnson, a newly single mother whose efforts to claim a share of the American Dream for herself and her young son meet frustration at every turn in 1940s Harlem. Opening a fresh perspective on the realities and challenges of black, female, working-class life, The Streetbecame the first novel by an African American woman to sell more than a million copies.