If Beale Street Could Talk
Author: Baldwin, James
ISBN: 9780140187977
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 1994
Pages: 240
Dimensions: 195mm x 129mm x 14mm
Format: Paperback / softback
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. To this love story James Baldwin brings a spare and impassioned intensity, charging it with universal resonance and power.
ISBN: 9780140187977
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 1994
Pages: 240
Dimensions: 195mm x 129mm x 14mm
Format: Paperback / softback
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. To this love story James Baldwin brings a spare and impassioned intensity, charging it with universal resonance and power.
