- African American women, Fiction, Mothers and sons, Fiction, general
The Street is a novel published in 1946 by African-American writer Ann Petry . Set in World War II era Harlem, it centers on the life of Lutie Johnson. Petry's novel is a commentary on the social injustices that confronted her character, Lutie Johnson, as a single black mother in this time period.
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- Author
- Ann Lane Petry, Ann Petry
- First published
- June 1969
- Pages
- 435
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Blackstone Publishing, Urban Audiobooks and Blackstone Audio
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780515019971
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Ann Lane was born on October 12, 1908 in Old Saybrook, Connecticut as the youngest of three daughters to Peter Clark Lane and Bertha James Lane in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. Her parents belonged to the black minority of the small town. Her father was a pharmacist and her mother was a shop owner, chiropodist, and hairdresser. Ann and her sister were raised "in the classic New England tradition: a study in efficiency, thrift, and utility (…) They were filled with ambitions that they might not have entertained had they lived in a city along with thousands of poor blacks stuck in demeaning jobs." On February 22, 1938, she married George D. Petry of New Iberia, Louisiana, which brought Petry to N
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