Book Review: Sam Sacks considers two reissued classics by the novelist Ann Petry
Ann Petry’s “The Street” begins with the wind. It howls down Harlem’s 116th Street like an angry apparition, rattling the garbage cans and whipping the window shades and stirring up the dirt and debris so that pedestrians have to stoop and shield their faces.
“And then the wind grabbed their hats, pried their scarves from around their necks, stuck its fingers inside their coat collars, blew their coats away from their bodies.” It doesn’t relent for a moment throughout this lashing book, one of the fiercest and most powerful representations of American city life written in the 20th century, and yet, strangely, one of the...
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