The Street, Ann Petry
The Street, Ann Petry
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The Street

Author: Ann Petry

Narrator: Shayna Small

Unabridged: 12 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/10/2013

Categories: Fiction, Urban

Synopsis

As much a historical document as it is a novel, this 1946 winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award is the poignant and unblinkingly honest story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her spirited struggle to live and raise her son by herself 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 Streetwas Ann Petrys first novel, a beloved bestseller with more than a million copies in print. Its haunting tale still resonates today.

About Ann Petry

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Candi on November 06, 2020

4.5 stars “All through Harlem there were apartments just like this one, she thought, and they’re nothing but traps. Dirty, dark, filthy traps. Upstairs. Downstairs. In my lady’s chamber. Click goes the trap when you pay the first month’s rent. Walk right in. It’s a free country. Dark little hallways.......more

Goodreads review by chantel on October 27, 2018

What an ending! I didn’t see it coming, but it did feel like Lutie Johnson (the main character) was teetering on the edge since page one and I guess they pushed her too many times. I feel like The Street relates so much so to the here and now. It’s 70 years later and has many things changed? Not rea......more

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