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Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction

If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin (author)

Paperback Published on: 29/09/1994

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Synopsis

The inspiration for the new film from Oscar award-winning director Barry Jenkins

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 it with universal resonance and power.

Publisher information

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780140187977
Number of pages: 192
Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 13 mm
Weight: 146g
Languages: English

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Passionate and Heartbreaking Fiction

This is my first experience of reading James Baldwin and safe to say I will definitely be reading more of his work. It is narrated by pregnant, nineteen-ye... READ MORE

Jenny Cooke

Recommend to me by a customer

Having spent nearly a year raving about American Marriage by Tayari Jones to everyone, a customer recommended I try this book... so I bought it and read it... READ MORE

Fiona Sharp

Pain, love, family and injustice

Baldwin packs a lot into 172 pages. The dreamlike writing from the perspective of a 19yr old girl can still create the tension of 1970's NY. As two familys... READ MORE

Emma Bailey

Outstanding!

I loved this book. It tells the harrowing story of a young black girl in the US in the sixties whose partner is accused of rape, while in typical Baldw... READ MORE

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