

An edition of The Narrows (1953)
By Ann Lane Petry
Publish Date
1953
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Language
eng
Pages
428
Description:
"It's Saturday, past midnight, and thick fog rolls in from the river like smoke. Link Williams is standing on the dock when he hears quick footsteps approaching, and the gasp of a woman too terrified to scream. After chasing off her attacker, he takes the woman to a nearby bar to calm her nerves, and as they enter, it's as if the oxygen has left the room: they, and the other patrons, see in the dim light that he's Black and she's white. Link is a brilliant Dartmouth graduate, former athlete and soldier who, because of the lack of opportunities available to him, tends bar; Camilo is a wealthy married woman dissatisfied with and bored of her life of privilege. Thrown together by a chance encounter, both Link and Camilo secretly cross the town's racial divide, defying the social prejudices of their times."--Publisher marketing.
subjects: Adultery, African American men, Fiction, Married women, Miscegenation, Race relations, White Women, Fiction, general, African Americans, African americans, fiction, Connecticut, fiction, Fiction, women, Interracial dating, Noirs américains, Romans, nouvelles, Relations raciales, Amours interraciaux
Places: Connecticut