It's Saturday, past midnight, and thick fog rolls in from the river like smoke. Link Williams is standing on the dock when he hears quick footsteps approaching, and the gasp of a woman too terrified to scream. After chasing off her pursuer, he takes the woman to a nearby bar to calm her nerves, and as they enter, it's as if the oxygen has left the room: they, and the other patrons, see in the dim light that he's Black and she's white. Link is a brilliant Dartmouth graduate, former athlete and soldier who, because of the lack of opportunities available to him, tends bar; Camilo is a wealthy married woman dissatisfied with and bored of her life of privilege. Thrown together by a chance encounter, both Link and Camilo secretly cross the town's racial divide, defying the social prejudices of their times.--Publisher marketing.
- | Author: Ann Petry
- | Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
- | Publication Date: Jan 10, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 560 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0063259990
- | ISBN-13: 9780063259997