If Beale Street Could Talk
Penguin Classics
Paperback
: 29 Sep 1994
£11.99
Synopsis
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.Reviews
Customer Review: 27 March 2010
Reviewer: starnamb
'this book wasz good'
» Submit a reviewCritic Review:
‘If Beale Street Could Talk progresses swiftly and suspensefully … It 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 in The New York Times Book Review.
‘Baldwin has been one of the few essential novelists of our time’ Frederick Raphael in the New Statesman
Product details
Format :
Paperback
ISBN: 9780140187977
Size : 129 x 198mm
Pages : 240
Published : 29 Sep 1994
Publisher : Penguin Classics
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