If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin

If Beale Street Could Talk
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
29 September 1994
Pages
192
ISBN
9780140187977

If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin

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.

To this love story James Baldwin brings a spare and impassioned intensity, charging it with universal resonance and power.

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