The Narrows
$28.10
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
18 February 2022
Summary
BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE STREET
With a new introduction by Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of Libertie‘Petry is the writer we have been waiting for … insightful, prescient and unputdownable’ TAYARI JONES ‘A masterpiece’ NEW YORK TIMES ‘A powerful and moving book … A book to watch’ KIRKUS REVIEWS It’s past midnight, and thick fog rolls…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349013404 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0349013403 |
| Author: | Ann Petry, Kaitlyn Greenidge |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 18 February 2022 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 126mm x 36mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
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 … The Narrows is the story of a doomed interracial romance that proves that passion and prejudice are not mutually exclusive - New York Times
About The Author
Ann Petry
Ann Petry (1908-1997), novelist and writer of short stories and books for young people, was one of America’s most distinguished authors. Her first published story appeared in 1943 in the Crisis. She then began on her first novel, The Street, which was published in 1946 and for which she received the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship. Petry wrote two more novels, The Country Place and The Narrows, and numerous short stories, articles and children’s books.
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