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If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin Price: LE 880
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| ''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 Oates
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Language: English Paperback: 464 pages ISBN-10: 9780140187977 ISBN-13: 9780140187977
Genre: Classics Shipping Weight: 53 grams Condition: New
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