If Beale Street could talk

a novel

Poŝlibro, 197 paĝoj

Lingvo: English

Eldonita je 19-a de novembro 2006 de Vintage International.

ISBN:
978-0-307-27593-6
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Numero OCLC:
72047484

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Like the blues -- sweet, sad and full of truth -- this masterly work of fiction rocks us with powerful emotions. In it are anger and pain, but above all, love -- affirmative love of a woman for her man, the sustaining love of a 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 realisitic tale... a powerful endictment of American concepts of justice and punishment in our time.

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The aspect of If Beale Street Could Talk which most deeply hit me was realising that James Baldwin's novel was set in the early 1970s - and published in 1974 - yet it appears to be just as illustrative of Black America today as it was then. Nothing has improved with regards to police racism, in fact, from the news reaching me here in the UK, things may even have gotten worse.

Baldwin's sharp prose throughout If Beale Street Could Talk kept me glued to the story from its first page to the last. I loved how deeply he portrayed his characters, within what is a relatively short novel, and how those people interacted so realistically. The young 'Romeo and Juliet' couple at the centre, Tish and Fonny, should be at the happiest point of their lives together - they are planning to get married and Tish is expecting their …

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  • African Americans -- Fiction.