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Title: Realism at its best!
Review: This work gripped me from the get go in a way that only a few other novels, such as "crime and punishment," have. Each time I picked it up I was astounded by the clarity and energy of Petry's writing, and found myself wondering why I had not discovered her work before. That other reviewers have found it difficult to follow the plot reflects in no way on Petry's prose. There are a few lengthy flashbacks which are integral to the books insights into urban culture. I did not find that these detracted from the story, as they were as key to the development of the plot line."The Street" is a great piece of fiction, that should be much more widely read. Petry makes a number of sociological observations that reach beyond the time of "the street," and remain disappointingly relevant today.
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