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If Beale Street Could Talk

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The inspiration for the new film from Oscar award-winning director Barry Jenkins '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 it with universal resonance and power. '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

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ISBN: 9780140187977
Publication date: 29th September 1994
Author: James Baldwin
Publisher: Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 192 pages
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Genres: Classics
Family Drama
Narrative theme: Love and relationships