![]() ![]() But a greater violence lurks beneath the surface of the storm… Country Place is a classic, page-turning story that masterfully captures the transformation of small-town life in America from one of the twentieth century’s finest writers. ![]() In one volume, two landmark novels about the terrible power of race in America from one. But his first doubts of Gloria’s infidelity are created on the way home by the local taxi driver, a passionate gossip, and these doubts which mature with the hurricane that is bearing down on them darkening the seemingly perfect town of Lennox, Connecticut. The Street / The Narrows by Ann Petry - book cover, description. ![]() Johnnie Roane has come home from four years of fighting in World War II to his loving parents and his beautiful wife, Gloria. Ann Petry, the woman, had it all, and so does her insightful, prescient and unputdownable prose.” - Tayari Jones, New York Times Book Reviewįrom the author of the bestselling novel The Street, Ann Petry’s classic 1947 novel portrays a small, sleepy New England town grappling with the indignities and lies of American life. “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. ![]()
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