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The Street
by Ann Petry
The 1940's is such a great time period for a novel. The war is over but the effects are still being felt. There are movie theaters but no televisions. Black people are free, but not really.
I would say this book is a great character novel, which I'm learning is right in my wheelhouse. Not much happens but man this author can write. She draws a villain so well you want to stop reading the book. The characters are flawed but real and will stick with me for a long time.
A passage:
"She listened intently to the record. It was “Darlin’,” and when the voice on the record stopped she started singing: “There’s no sun, Darlin’. There’s no fun, Darlin’.”
The men and the women crowded at the bar stopped drinking to look at her. Her voice had a thin thread of sadness running through it that made the song important, that made it tell a story that wasn’t in the words—a story of despair, of loneliness, of frustration. It was a story that all of them knew by heart and had always known because they had learned it soon after they were born and would go on adding to it until the day they died."
I would say this book is a great character novel, which I'm learning is right in my wheelhouse. Not much happens but man this author can write. She draws a villain so well you want to stop reading the book. The characters are flawed but real and will stick with me for a long time.
A passage:
"She listened intently to the record. It was “Darlin’,” and when the voice on the record stopped she started singing: “There’s no sun, Darlin’. There’s no fun, Darlin’.”
The men and the women crowded at the bar stopped drinking to look at her. Her voice had a thin thread of sadness running through it that made the song important, that made it tell a story that wasn’t in the words—a story of despair, of loneliness, of frustration. It was a story that all of them knew by heart and had always known because they had learned it soon after they were born and would go on adding to it until the day they died."