Description: "The Street copyright à 1946, 1974 by Ann Petry. Published by arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. The Narrows copyright à 1953, 1981 by Ann Petry. 'Harlem,' 'The great secret,' and 'The novel as social criticism' copyright à 1949, 1950, 1977, 1978 by Ann Petry. Published by arrangement with Elisabeth Petry"--Copyright pag
Review Quotes: "Petry will always feel on time. Her kind of talent will always feel startling and sui generis: The music of her sentences, and their discipline; her unerring sense of psychology; the fullness with which she endows each character, which must be understood as a kind of love; the plots that commandeer whole hours and days. . . . Her work endures not only because it illuminates reality, but because it harnesses the power of fiction to supplant it." -- Parul Sehgal, The New York Times
"Newly reissued, Ann Petry's novels The Street and The Narrows are masterpieces of social realism ... this reissue makes clear that her writing transcends comparisons. It's volatile but exacting, heartbreaking but often brutally funny. Labels don't stick to it." -- Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal