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South Street David Bradley Snippet view - South Street David Bradley Snippet view - Common terms and phrases. afterwards agent American arrived Atlantic became boat Boston British brought Brown builders building built California called Captain cargo carried China clipper close coast command commerce Commission Merchant Company. David Bradley is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon and the author of South Street and The Chaneysville Incident, the latter of which won the PEN/Faulkner Award in and was a finalist for the National Book Award. The novel also /5(9). This is unquestionably a young man's novel (David Bradley is 23) and the romance is as thick as the humidity on a hot summer's day in Philadelphia. You may smile from time to time at his protagonist—Adlai Stevenson Brown, sensitive poet, melancholic drunk, tender lover of whores and his fellow man—but then this is also a precocious achievement displaying an acute power of observation.

Find many great new used options and get the best deals for SOUTH STREET By David Bradley **Mint Condition** at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! IN his first novel, ''South Street,'' David Bradley cast an incisive eye on the inhabitants of one of Philadelphia's more colorful inner-city thoroughfares and displayed a distinct flare for. PEN/Faulkner Award-winner David Bradley's marvelous debut novel is riotously funny and keenly insightful in equal measure. South Street is 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.

Opening out there's a dedicatory poem to ""South Street""—the garbage, hunger, stench, hatred. It's not awfully good, but the novel fleshes out its ideas with a network of hustlers much larger than any pity you might initially feel. David Bradley is better known for his novel "The Chaneysville Incident"; it's too bad "South Street" has all but faded into obscurity behind the other book, because on its own, "South Street" is an incisive, perceptive, and devastatingly funny novel about life on the street. David Bradley is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon and the author of South Street and The Chaneysville Incident, the latter of which won the PEN/Faulkner Award in and was a finalist for the National Book Award. The novel also earned Bradley an Academy Award for literature.