Country Place
A Novel
by Ann Petry
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Pub Date 15 Mar 2019 | Archive Date 29 Sep 2020
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Description
A 1947 novel by best-selling African American author Ann Petry, Country Place opens with a soldier returning from World War II and his effort to rescue his failing marriage.
Advance Praise
“Long out of print, this neglected tour-de-force is a startling departure from her acclaimed debut novel The Street (1946); with its reissue, I anticipate it finally garnering the wider readership it deserves.” –Keith Clark, George Mason University
“In this novel Ann Petry shows, through her compactness of style, increased fluidity of dialogue, and convincing character analysis, a marked advance over The Street.” —Margaret Just Wormley, Journal of Negro Education, 1948
“Gossip, malice, calculation, infidelity, adultery, attempted murder, sudden death, and a set of surprise bequests that more or less straighten things out—these are some of the dominant matters treated in Country Place. Yet this is, despite the violence of its events, a quiet book, carefully and economically phrased, and a good deal different from the author’s best-selling The Street.” —Richard Sullivan, New York Times, 1947
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780810139763 |
| PRICE | US$18.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 280 |
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