If Beale Street could talk: a novel
This novel is a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, the story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions: affection, despair, and ho…
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- Full title :If Beale Street could talk : a novel / James Baldwin.
Summary
This novel is a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, the story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions: affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, the author has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche.
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- Publication Date:2006, ©1974.
- Edition:1st Vintage International ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Vintage International/Vintage Books
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2006, ©1974.
Notes
"Originally published in hardcover: New York : Dial Press, 1974 -- T.p. verso.
The Physical Object
- Description:197 pages ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780307275936, 0307275930
- oclc:on1057055025
- LC Classification:PS3552.A45
- Dewey Decimal:813/.54
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