Country Place

Petry 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,New York Times Book ReviewFrom 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 Placeis 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