Howard Street by Nathan C. Heard [FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION] 1970 • Signet

HOWARD STREET by NATHAN C. HEARD 

FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION [1970] SIGNET BOOKS

Fifth printing / 1970. 

Vintage paperback in very good reading condition with a few flaws:

Faint yellow stain on front cover (and some general cover wear)

Pages read perfectly well.   Date of publication handwritten on title and half-titlepage.  Remainder mark to top of text block.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Howard Street is a street of doomed souls - whores, junkies, pushers, winos, thieves and corrupt cops. This novel relates and entwines individual stories revealing a community whose lives and aspirations are tempered by poverty and the omnipotence of drugs.

Originally published in 1968, Howard Street is the searingly powerful novel written inside of Trenton State Prison and based on first-hand Newark street experiences of one of the most accomplished black American writers. 

Howard Street provides a shocking insight into the lives of prostitutes, johns, pushers, drug addicts and other lost souls who have never known any other way of life. What many have coined a literary masterpiece, is a paradoxical story of triumph and tragedy, hope and hopelessness that many face living on or near Howard Street.