"Petry is the writer we have been waiting for; hers are the stories we
need to fully illuminate the questions of our moment, while also
offering a page-turning good time. Ann Petry, the woman, had it all, and
so does her insightful, prescient and unputdownable prose." -- Tayari
Jones, New York Times Book Review
From the author of the bestselling novel The Street, Ann Petry's
classic 1947 novel portrays a small, sleepy New England town grappling
with the indignities and lies of American life.
Johnnie Roane has come home from four years of fighting in World War II
to his loving parents and his beautiful wife, Gloria. But his first
doubts of Gloria's infidelity are created on the way home by the local
taxi driver, a passionate gossip, and these doubts which mature with the
hurricane that is bearing down on them darkening the seemingly perfect
town of Lennox, Connecticut. But a greater violence lurks beneath the
surface of the storm...Country Place is a classic, page-turning story
that masterfully captures the transformation of small-town life in
America from one of the twentieth century's finest writers.
"I've recently had my brain re-wired by Ann Petry, and it's that
exhilarating feeling of falling in love with one of your lifetime
writers for the first time." --Brandon Tyler
