South Street

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480438538

<DIV><DIV><B>A poet craving authenticity ventures into a gritty Philadelphia neighborhood in this novel by the award-winning author of <I>The Chaneysville Incident</I>.</B><BR /> &#160;</DIV><DIV>Philadelphia&rsquo;s South Street is a world of contradiction. The hardscrabble neighborhood is filled with prostitutes and gangsters; working stiffs mingle with winos at Lightnin&rsquo; Ed&rsquo;s bar. But the streetwalkers are nearing retirement, the gangsters are unemployed, and a community is thriving in and around a place written off by officials and politicians as blighted.</DIV><DIV><BR /> Black poet Adlai Stevenson Brown makes his way to South Street in search of authenticity in the form of a neighborhood to save. But the world of South Street&mdash;beyond its grit and danger&mdash;is more than the cultured young fish out of water ever expected . . . and a lot more than he can handle.</DIV><DIV><BR /> PEN/Faulkner Award&ndash;winner David Bradley&rsquo;s marvelous debut novel is riotously funny and keenly insightful in equal measure. <I>South Street </I>is a magnificent evocation not only of a vanished time, but of an American archetype in Adlai&mdash;a man in search of someone to save, unaware that he himself may need saving.</DIV><DIV>&#160;</DIV></DIV>