Bibliograph

If Beale Street could talk, James Baldwin

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If Beale Street could talk, James Baldwin

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

Young Adult

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

If Beale Street could talk

Oclc number

18092513

Responsibility statement

James Baldwin

Summary

Like the blues--sweet, sad, and full of truth--this masterful work of fiction rocks us with powerful emotions. In it are anger and pain, but above all, love--the affirmative love of a woman for her man, the sustaining love of the black family. Fonny, a talented young artist, finds himself unjustly arrested and locked in New York's infamous Tombs. But his girlfriend, Tish, is determined to free him, and to have his baby, in this starkly realistic tale ... a powerful indictment of American concepts of justice and punishment in our time

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