At Home Inside: A Daughters Tribute to Ann Petry


She moved to New York, secretly marrying George in March , but publicly marrying him with her parents present in February Their only child, Elisabeth, was born in He was an attractive man, tall with the build of a football player.

A Louisiana man sent north by his people to attend high school in New York City, he went on scholarship to Columbia University. He managed a restaurant in New York before moving back to the Lane family home at Old Boston Post Road in Saybrook, where [End Page ] Ann had lived from the age of 12 until her brief hiatus in the city, and then back again for the rest of her life.

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William Morrow and Company. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Stated First Edition with complete number line. DJ clean and unmarked.

At home inside : a daughter's tribute to Ann Petry

DJ has very minor and small bumping to bottom e Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden Brown cloth spine with copper lettering. Speckled cream hardboards with Japanese symbols embossed in copper. Dust jacket has no tears, nicks, worn corners or creases. Sharp, clean, deckled pages.

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by Elisabeth Petry

Book titles OR Journal titles. Book titles OR Journal titles. I've written this work because I want to correct the record about the basic facts of [Ann's] existence. She, like her father and her aunt, too, became a pharmacist, graduating from Connecticut College of Pharmacy in New Haven in Her novels The Street , Country Place , and The Narrows , along with a collection of short stories and various essays and works of nonfiction, give voice to black experience outside of the traditional strains of poverty and black nationalism. In bright, very lightly edgeworn jacke

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