Synopsis
From the first startling encounter at Lightnin' Ed's Bar and Grill to the last glimpse of the ghetto from the other side of the river, this novel vibrates with a sense of life so strong, a sense of character so rich, that to read South Street is to be there: there among the lives and half-lives in the black city.
David Bradley's excursion into street life resonates with jive talk and jazz rhythms, tastes of the visceral reality of this corner of America. A young, middle-class black, a would-be "proletarian poet," decides to seek the world of the "people"; and it is among the hookers and hustlers, the winos and the pimps, the conmen and the missionaries that he finds a life threatened by impotence and empty rage, yet charged and invigorated by laughter, brassiness. and pride.
An extraordinary achievement, this rendering of life into words—words charged by the rhythms of the city, fired by the substance of lives lived on a precipitous edge.
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About the Author
David Bradley is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon and the author of "South Street" and "The Chaneysville Incident", the latter of which won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1982 and was a finalist for the National Book Award. The novel also earned Bradley an Academy Award for literature. Bradley has published essays, book reviews, and interviews in periodicals and newspapers including "Esquire", "Redbook", the "New York Times", the "Los Angeles Times", and the "New Yorker".
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