Cover art for If Beale Street Could Talk
Published
Penguin Classics, September 1994
ISBN
9780140187977
Format
Softcover, 192 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 13cm × 1.2cm

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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.

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