If Beale Street could talk: a novel
"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, Baldwin's 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 …
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- Full title :If Beale Street could talk : a novel / James Baldwin.
Summary
"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, Baldwin's 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, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche."--Page 4 of cover.
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2018.
- Edition:First Vintage international movie tie-in edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Vintage books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2018.
The Physical Object
- Description:197 pages ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780525566120, 0525566120, 9780307275936, 0307275930
- oclc:on1128181286
- LC Classification:PS3552.A45
- Dewey Decimal:[Fic]
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