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A poet in search of reality finds a world of hookers, streets preachers, blue-collar employees, and small time hoods that changes him and his prospect Philadelphia's South Streets is a world of contradiction. The hardscrabble area is filled up with prostitutes and gangsters; Working stiffs mingle with winos at Lightnin' Ed's club. However the streetwalkers are nearing retirement living, the gangsters are unemployed, and a community is flourishing around a location written off by representatives and politicians as blighted. African american poet Adlai Stevenson Brown makes his way to South Streets in search of authenticity by means of a neighborhood to save lots of. However the world of South Streets - beyond its grit and threat - is more than the cultured young fish out of normal water ever before expected... and much more than he are designed for. Pencil/Faulkner Award-winner David Bradley's marvelous debut book is riotously funny and keenly insightful in equal measure. South Streets is an impressive evocation not only of an vanished time, but of an American archetype in Adlai - a guy in search of you to definitely save, unaware that he himself might need saving.

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