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The Narrows (Paperback)
Loot Price: R279
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The Narrows (Paperback)
Series: Virago Modern Classics
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Loot Price R279
Discovery Miles 2 790
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BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE STREET With a new introduction by
Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of Libertie 'Petry is the writer we have
been waiting for, hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate
the questions of our moment . . . insightful, prescient and
unputdownable . . . The Narrows is the story of an interracial
romance that proves that passion and prejudice are not mutually
exclusive' Tayari Jones It's Saturday, past midnight, and thick fog
rolls in from the river like smoke. Link Williams is standing on
the dock when he hears quick footsteps approaching, and the gasp of
a woman too terrified to scream. After chasing off her pursuer, he
takes the woman to a nearby bar to calm her nerves, and as they
enter, it's as if the oxygen has left the room: they, and the other
patrons, see in the dim light that he's Black and she's white. Link
is a brilliant Dartmouth graduate, former athlete and soldier who,
because of the lack of opportunities available to him, tends bar;
Camilo is a wealthy, married heiress who has crossed the town's
racial divide to relieve the tedium of her privileged life. Brought
together by chance, Link and Camilo draw each other into furtive
encounters that violate the rigid and uncompromising social codes
of their times. 'Petry will always feel on time. Her kind of talent
will always feel startling and sui generis. . . . Her work endures
not only because it illuminates reality, but because it harnesses
the power of fiction to supplant it' Parul Seghal, New York Times
'The Street and The Narrows are masterpieces of social realism . .
. . [Petry's] writing transcends comparisons. It's volatile but
exacting, heartbreaking but often brutally funny. Labels don't
stick to it' Wall Street Journal
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