The Street is a novel published in 1946 by African-American writer Ann Petry. Set in World War II era Harlem, Petry's novel is a commentary on the social injustices that confront her character, …

2019年6月9日 · The Street opens with the story’s main character, Lutie Johnson, braving a bitter, cold wind as she walks through Harlem in New York City. The wind Lutie faces is personified …

1998年3月15日 · "The Street" by Ann Petry is a remarkable novel, a tour de force in its examinations of what life was like for African Americans in the 1940s. Petry's depiction of …

The Street, written by Ann Petry and published in 1946, follows Lutie Johnson, a single mother of a young boy named Bub, who moves into a new apartment in Harlem during the 1940s.

2024年1月8日 · The Street by Ann Petry (1946) was the first novel by a Black woman writer to sell more than a million copies — all told, it sold more than 1.5 million. The story centers on Lutie …

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 …

The Street, naturalistic novel by Ann Petry, published in 1946, that was one of the first novels by an African American woman to receive widespread critical acclaim. Set in Long Island, New …

Complete summary of Ann Petry's The Street. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Street.

2019年6月9日 · While often treated as a realist novel about the interior lives of its characters and their internal experiences of oppression, Ann Petry’s The Street may also be read as a …

Ann Petry (October 12, 1908 – April 28, 1997) was an American writer of novels, short stories, children's books and journalism. Her 1946 debut novel The Street became the first novel by an …