If Beale Street Could Talk
Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Paperback Published on: 29/09/1994
£8.99
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: Penguin Books Ltd
- ISBN: 9780140187977
- Number of pages: 192
- Weight: 147g
- Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 12 mm
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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
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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
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