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Ann Petry - Street, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Street

Av Ann Petry

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FROM A BESTSELLING AUTHOR With a new introduction by TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage'The prose is clear, the plot is page-turning, the characters are utterly believable' CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE'The first book by a black woman to sell more than a million copies' NEW YORK TIMES'My favourite type of novel, literary with an astonishing plot' TAYARI JONESNew York City, 1940s. In a crumbling tenement in Harlem, Lutie Johnson is determined to build a new life for herself and her eight-year-old boy, Bub - a life that she can be proud of. Having left her unreliable husband, Lutie believes that with hard work and resolve, she can begin again; she has faith in the American dream. But in her struggle to earn money and raise her son amid the violence, poverty and racial dissonance of her surroundings, Lutie is soon trapped: she is a woman alone, 'too good-looking to be decent', with predators at every turn.
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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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The Street is my favorite type of novel, literary with an astonishing plot . . . Petry engages the issues of her day, which sadly are the issues of our day as well . . . I just can't figure out why this work is not more widely read and celebrated . . . Sometimes when a writer is regarded as "before her time" we don't quite understand that the same work is still right on time. 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

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3 recensioner, genomsnitt 4/5

  1. 4/5 Torsten R

    Romanen förtjänar sin status som klassiker och är dessvärre fortfarande en aktuell beskrivning av strukturell rasism. Den kan bli lite upprepande, men det kan man också se som ett fungerande stildrag. Bilden av de svartas situation i Harlem på 40-talet är utan hopp, men så upplevdes den säkert av de flesta. Jag saknar att det inte finns en enda antydan till att huvudpersonen skulle kunna förändra sin situation genom organiserad gemensam handling. Det fanns organisationer som drev de svartas sak redan då, men i boken finns bara allas kamp mot alla. Läs inte den svenska översättningen om du behärskar engelska!

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  2. 4/5 Ranasha R
  3. 4/5 Bengt I

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