James Baldwin If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: If Beale Street Could TalkCondition: NewEAN: 9780140187977ISBN: 9780140187977Publisher: Penguin ClassicsFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/29/1994Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 11mmItem Weight: 145gAuthor: James BaldwinLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 0140187979Description: '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 OatesThe inspiration for Oscar award-winning film Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: FictionBook Series: Penguin Modern ClassicsTopic: Classic FictionRelease Year: 1994 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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