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If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin
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Description for If Beale Street Could Talk
Paperback. Tish is nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. The two families struggle win justice for Fonny. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 182.
'Achingly beautiful' Guardian
Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin's novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. Flashbacks from their love affair are woven into the compelling struggle of two families to win justice for Fonny. To this love story James Baldwin brings a spare and impassioned intensity, charging ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140187977
SKU
9780140187977
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About James Baldwin
James Baldwin was born in 1924 in New York. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), which evokes his experiences as a boy preacher in Harlem, was an immediate success. Baldwin’s second novel, Giovanni's Room (1956) has become a landmark of gay literature and Another Country (1962) caused a literary sensation. His searing essay collections Notes of ... Read more
Reviews for If Beale Street Could Talk
If Beale Street Could Talk affirms not only love between a man and a woman, but love of a type that is dealt with only rarely in contemporary fiction - that between members of a family
Joyce Carol Oates Soulful . . . Racial injustice may flatten "the black experience" into one single, fearful, constantly undermined way of life-but ... Read more
Joyce Carol Oates Soulful . . . Racial injustice may flatten "the black experience" into one single, fearful, constantly undermined way of life-but ... Read more