If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin

172 pages paperback 1974

87 editions

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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 af...

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