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If Beale Street Could Talk
Reader Score
87%
87% of readers
recommend this book
"One of the best books Baldwin has ever written--perhaps the best of all." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: Oct 10th, 2006
- Pages: 208
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.10in - 0.60in - 0.40lb
- EAN: 9780307275936
- Categories: • Literary• African American & Black - Urban & Street Lit• Family Life - General
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What people are saying
Matt Zoller Seitz is a film and television critic.
16. James Baldwin books. The Devil Finds Work (about Hollywood): https://t.co/gLZ7m508j1 I Am Not Your Negro https://t.co/OSErFG92RY If Beale Street Could Talk: https://t.co/l4sj9jwV8o James Baldwin: A Biography: https://t.co/WoEe4FMF2B https://t.co/Hf9bEbp7BF
Mark Anthony Neal is an author and professor of African American studies.
'In this episode of Open Form, @MychalSmith talks to @FJasmineG about the 2018 film If Beale Street Could Talk, dirrected by @BarryJenkins, adapted from the novel by James Baldwin, and starring Regina King, KiKi Layne, Stephan James, and Colman Domingo.' https://t.co/KhGXNydq3J
Author of LIVING WITH LYNCHING and FROM SLAVE CABINS TO THE WHITE HOUSE. Editor of IOLA LEROY and INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL. Feminist/Wannabe runner
WHEW! Another example of James Baldwin coming at you with a truth that hits hard: "Time could not be bought. The only coin time accepted was life" (IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK 94-95).
Praise for this book
"A moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless." --Joyce Carol Oates
"If Van Gogh was our nineteenth-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our twentiethth-century one." --Michael Ondaatje
"Striking and particularly haunting.... A beauty, especially in its rendering of youthful passion." --Cosmopolitan
"A major work of Black American fiction.... His best novel yet, even Baldwin's most devoted readers are due to be stunned by it." --The New Republic
"Emotional dynamite.... A powerful assault upon the cynicism that seems today to drain our determination to confront deep social problems." --Library Journal
"A moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless." --The New York Times Book Review
What people are saying
Matt Zoller Seitz is a film and television critic.
16. James Baldwin books. The Devil Finds Work (about Hollywood): https://t.co/gLZ7m508j1 I Am Not Your Negro https://t.co/OSErFG92RY If Beale Street Could Talk: https://t.co/l4sj9jwV8o James Baldwin: A Biography: https://t.co/WoEe4FMF2B https://t.co/Hf9bEbp7BF
Mark Anthony Neal is an author and professor of African American studies.
'In this episode of Open Form, @MychalSmith talks to @FJasmineG about the 2018 film If Beale Street Could Talk, dirrected by @BarryJenkins, adapted from the novel by James Baldwin, and starring Regina King, KiKi Layne, Stephan James, and Colman Domingo.' https://t.co/KhGXNydq3J