Ann Petry

The Narrows

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A new edition of the classic novel from 1953. Petry's debut novel The Street was the first book by an African American woman to sell more than a million copies. 'Petry is the writer we have been waiting for,' Tayari Jones, New York Times

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-349-01340-4
EAN: 9780349013404
Produktnummer: 32349549
Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 416 S.
Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.6 cm
Reihenbandnummer: 798

Über den Autor

Ann Petry (1908-1997), novelist, short story writer and writer of books for young people, was one of America's most distinguished authors. Petry began by studying pharmacology, and in 1934 received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Connecticut College of Pharmacy. She worked as a registered pharmacist in Old Saybrook and in Lyme, and during these years wrote several short stories. When she married George David Petry in 1938, the course of her life changed. They lived in New York City, and Ann went to work for the Harlem Amsterdam News. By 1941, she was covering general news stories and editing the women's pages of the People's Voice in Harlem. Her first published story appeared in 1943 in the Crisis, a magazine published monthly by the NAACP. Subsequent to that, she began work 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.