Country Place // A Novel

From the author of the bestselling novelThe Street,Ann Petrys classic 1947 novelportrays a small, sleepy New England town grappling with the indignities and lies of American life.

Johnnie Roane has come home from four years of fighting in World War II to his loving parents and his beautiful wife, Gloria. But his first doubts of Glorias infidelity are created on the way home by the local taxi driver, a passionate gossip, and these doubts which mature with the hurricane that is bearing down on them darkening the seemingly perfect town of Lennox, Connecticut. But a greater violence lurks beneath the surface of the stormCountry Place is a classic, page-turning story that masterfully captures the transformation of small-town life in America from one of the twentieth centurys finest writers.

Ive 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

Ann Petry was the acclaimed author of the adult novel The Street, a groundbreaking literary work about life in Harlem, which sold over a million copies. She also wrote several books for young readers, including Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad, the story of the courageous and heroic woman who struggled and fought for her people before and during the Civil War.

• Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
• Publish Date: January 10, 2023
• Pages: 272
• Language: English
• Type: Paperback
• EAN/UPC: 9780063260092
• Dimensions: 8.0 X 5.3 X 0.6 inches | .71 pounds
• BISAC Categories: Popular Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction