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If Beale Street Could Talk (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) Book

The inspiration for the new film from Oscar award-winning director Barry Jenkins 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.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    Tish is nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. The two families struggle win justice for Fonny. We are in Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles.

  • BookDepository

    If Beale Street Could Talk : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780140187977 : : 03 Aug 2018 : Tish is nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. The two families struggle win justice for Fonny.

  • Penguin

    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.

  • ASDA

    Tish is nineteen and pregnant. Her lover Fonny father of her child is in jail accused of rape. The two families struggle win justice for Fonny.

  • 0140187979
  • 9780140187977
  • James Baldwin
  • 29 September 1994
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 240
  • New Ed
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