Petry, Ann (Vol. 1) - Petry, Ann 1911–
Petry, Ann 1911–
Mrs. Petry, a Black American, has written novels, short stories, and children's books. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.)
A performance that exhibits a high level of competence in fictional writing is Ann Petry's Country Place. The author's second novel differs from her first best selling, The Street. Country Place is her assertion of freedom as a creative artist with the whole of humanity in the American scene as her province. Petry's departure from racial themes and the specialized Negro problem adds to her maturity. As such the book does not develop a thesis with the ultimate indictment of the social order implicit, but it does present several themes….
The plot outline of Country Place is slender, but in Petry's hand there emerges a keen sense of timing and incidents of mounting intensity….
One of the distinctive features of Country Place is the competently...
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