{"product_id":"9781480438538","title":"South Street: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eA poet craving authenticity ventures into a gritty Philadelphia neighborhood in this novel by the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Chaneysville Incident\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Philadelphia’s South Street is a world of contradiction. The hardscrabble neighborhood is filled with prostitutes and gangsters; working stiffs mingle with winos at Lightnin’ Ed’s bar. But the streetwalkers are nearing retirement, the gangsters are unemployed, and a community is thriving in and around a place written off by officials and politicians as blighted.\u003cbr\u003e Black poet Adlai Stevenson Brown makes his way to South Street in search of authenticity in the form of a neighborhood to save. But the world of South Street—beyond its grit and danger—is more than the cultured young fish out of water ever expected . . . and a lot more than he can handle.\u003cbr\u003e PEN\/Faulkner Award–winner David Bradley’s marvelous debut novel is riotously funny and keenly insightful in equal measure. \u003ci\u003eSouth Street \u003c\/i\u003eis a magnificent evocation not only of a vanished time, but of an American archetype in Adlai—a man in search of someone to save, unaware that he himself may need saving. ","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182920712432,"sku":"9781480438538","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781480438538_p0.jpg?v=1763619585","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781480438538","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}