The Street Audiobook by Ann Petry

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Street Subtitle: A Novel Author: Ann Petry Narrator: Shayna Small Format: Unabridged Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins Language: English Release date: 01-18-13 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. and Buck 50 Productions, LLC Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 91 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: As much a historical document as it is a novel, this 1946 winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award is the poignant and unblinkingly honest story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her spirited struggle to live and raise her son by herself amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late 1940s. Originally published in 1946 and hailed by critics as a masterwork, The Street was Ann Petrys first novel, a beloved best seller with more than a million copies in print. Its haunting tale still resonates today. Ann Petry (1908-1997) was an American author who became the first African American woman writer with book sales topping a million copies for her novel The Street, which earned her the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship. Critic Reviews: A major literary inventionA truly great book.(Los Angeles Times) Overflows with the classic pity and terror of good imaginative writing.(New York Times) A powerful, uncompromising work of social criticism. To this day, few works of fiction have so clearly illuminated the devastating impact of racial injustice. (Coretta Scott King, American author, activist, and civil rights leader)