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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
South Street

South Street

Bradley, David
Thomas, Joseph Earl

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ISBN10: 0385552092
ISBN13: 9780385552097
Publisher: Outsider Editions
Pages: 544
Weight: 0.96
Height: 1.16 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.50
Language: English
South Street is a brilliant, heartfelt portrait of Black urban life and a man grappling with the messy, uncontainable truths of life, love, and survival.

Philadelphia's South Street in the 1970s is a place of sharp contrasts. On one block, working stiffs swap stories with winos at Lightnin' Ed's bar; a few doors down, gangsters and sex workers navigate a world on the edge. The neighborhood hums with life, even as the old guard ages out, the disenfranchised find themselves out of work, and the city's officials write the whole place off as blighted. And yet, somehow, the community endures.

Into this world comes Adlai Stevenson Brown, a Black poet searching for authenticity and a neighborhood to save. But South Street refuses to be neatly defined. Its grit is real, its danger immediate, and its residents are far more complicated than Adlai--or anyone--could imagine. In trying to save the street, he may discover he's the one who needs saving.

With riotous humor, sharp insight, and a poet's ear for the life of a place, PEN/Faulkner Award-winner David Bradley's debut novel, first published in 1975, captures a vanished era and a city vibrating with beautiful contradictions.

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