If Beale Street Could Talk

Penguin Modern Classics

Cover Art for 9780140187977, If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
ISBN: 9780140187977
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 29 September, 1994
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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. To this love story James Baldwin brings a spare and impassioned intensity, charging it with universal resonance and power.

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