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The street

Houghton Mifflin literary fellowship novel

by Petry Ann Lane

Synopsis

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.

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Book Information

Copyright year 1991
ISBN-13 9780395901496
ISBN-10 0395901499
Class Copyright
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Co.
Subject FICTION
File Size 0 MB
Number of Pages 440
Length of Recording 13
Shelf No. HS159