Link Williams is a handsome and brilliant Dartmouth graduate who
tends bar for a lack of better opportunities for an African
American man in a staid mid-century Connecticut town. The routine
of Link’s life is interrupted when he intervenes to save a woman
from a late-night attack. When they enter a bar together after the
incident, “Camilo” discovers that her rescuer is African
American and he that she is a wealthy, married, white woman who’s
crossed the town’s racial divide to relieve her life’s tedium.
Thus brought together by chance, Link and Camilo draw each other
into furtive encounters against the rigid and uncompromising social
codes of their town and times. Petry peoples the novel with a cast
of characters written in mesmerizing detail—Weak Knees, Al the
Nazi, and the female undertaker F.K. Jackson. As The Narrows sweeps
ahead to its shattering denouement, Petry shines a harsh yet richly
truthful light on the deforming harm that race and class wreak on
human lives. In a fascinating introduction to this new edition,
Keith Clark discusses the powerful prescience with which Petry
chronicled the enduring ways tabloid journalism, smug elitism, and
mob mentality distort and demonize African American men.
General
Imprint: |
Northwestern University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
July 2017 |
Authors: |
Ann Petry
|
Contributors: |
Keith Clark
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 30mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
464 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8101-3551-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General
|
LSN: |
0-8101-3551-5 |
Barcode: |
9780810135512 |
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