If Beale Street Could Talk

SKU: 9780140187977
$24.00
  • Author:
    BALDWIN James
  • ISBN:
    9780140187977
  • Publication Date:
    September 1994
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    192
  • Binding:
    Paperback
  • Publisher:
    Penguin Books
  • Country of Publication:
    United Kingdom
If Beale Street Could Talk
If Beale Street Could Talk

If Beale Street Could Talk

SKU: 9780140187977
$24.00
  • Author:
    BALDWIN James
  • ISBN:
    9780140187977
  • Publication Date:
    September 1994
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    192
  • Binding:
    Paperback
  • Publisher:
    Penguin Books
  • Country of Publication:
    United Kingdom

Description

We are in 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. James Baldwin brings a spare and impassioned intensity to this love story, charging it with universal resonance and power.

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  • We are in 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. James Baldwin brings a spare and impassioned intensity to this love story, charging it with universal resonance and power.

We are in 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. James Baldwin brings a spare and impassioned intensity to this love story, charging it with universal resonance and power.

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