{"product_id":"9780063259997","title":"The Narrows : A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePetry is the writer we have been waiting for; hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate the questions of our moment, while also offering a page-turning good time. Ann Petry, the woman, had it all, and so does her insightful, prescient and unputdownable prose. Tayari Jones,\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom author of the bestselling novel\u003cem\u003eThe Street,\u003c\/em\u003ea masterpiece of social realism (\u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eabout a tragic love affair, and a powerful look into how class, race, and love intersected in midcentury America.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith a new introduction by Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of\u003cem\u003eLibertie.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Narrows\u003c\/em\u003edeftly explores what it means to have an interior life under the unrelenting gaze of whiteness...it is a master class in using descriptions of place and space to explore the realities of race, gender, class and psychology.Kaitlyn Greenidge, from her introduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts 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, its as if the oxygen has left the room: they, and the other patrons, see in the dim light that hes Black and shes white.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLink 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 woman dissatisfied with and bored of her life of privilege. Thrown together by a chance encounter, both Link and Camilo secretly cross the towns racial divide, defying the social prejudices of their times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this stunning and heartbreaking story, Petry illuminates the harsh realities of race and class through two doomed lovers. This profound, necessary novel stakes Petrys place as an indelible writer of American literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIve recently had my brain re-wired by Ann Petry, and its that exhilarating feeling of falling in love with one of your lifetime writers for the first time. Brandon Tyler\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45459256082653,"sku":"9780063259997","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9780063259997.jpg?v=1719967858","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9780063259997","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}