A poet in search of reality finds a world of hookers, street preachers, blue-collar workers, and small time hoods that changes him and his outlook Philadelphia's South Street is a world of contradiction. The hardscrabble neighborhood is filled with prostitutes and gangsters; Working stiffs mingle with winos at Lightnin' Ed'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. Black poet ...
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A poet in search of reality finds a world of hookers, street preachers, blue-collar workers, and small time hoods that changes him and his outlook Philadelphia's South Street is a world of contradiction. The hardscrabble neighborhood is filled with prostitutes and gangsters; Working stiffs mingle with winos at Lightnin' Ed'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. 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 - beyond its grit and danger - is more than the cultured young fish out of water ever expected... and a lot more than he can handle. PEN/Faulkner Award-winner David Bradley's marvelous debut novel is riotously funny and keenly insightful in equal measure. South Street is a magnificent evocation not only of a vanished time, but of an American archetype in Adlai - a man in search of someone to save, unaware that he himself may need saving.
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Add this copy of South Street to cart. $50.00, very good condition, Sold by Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Springfield, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by Grossman / Viking.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0670659355. The author's first book. First edition. Foxing along fore edge, else very good in a very good (slightly sun faded along the spine, trace wear and age darkening along the edges) dust jacket.
Add this copy of South Street to cart. $55.34, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hialeah, FL, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by Viking Pr.
Add this copy of South Street to cart. $89.00, very good condition, Sold by Mainly Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silverdale, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by Grossman Publishers / Viking Press.
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Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0670659355. Hardcover with dustjacket, warmly inscribed, signed and dated by the author: "For my favorite librarian-Now you see-if you hadn't waited for it to become rare, you could be selling the thing at a 750% profit. For the next one, I'll give you a copy of the ms. David Bradley Sept 6, 1986-Blue Bell more or less." Book is clean and tight with no significant flaws, the jacket is sunned from orange to yellow on the spine and has a tiny short edge-tear at the bottom front corner, the original price (10.00) is present and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, a handsome and unique copy of the author's first book; 340 pages; Signed by Author.
Add this copy of South Street to cart. $110.00, very good condition, Sold by Shadetree Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chatham, VA, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by Viking Pr.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book Hardcover with Dust Jacket-Very Good condition. Contains previous owner's bookplate. Some slight sunning to extremities of boards, bright and clean with some spots of discoloration here and there, in a strong and striking bright yellow pictorial dust jacket with some light sunning and cosmetic wear to extremities. A very good copy. The African-American author's debut novel, in which a young in search of authenticity quite definitely finds it.
