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If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback, New ed)
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If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback, New ed)
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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This new Baldwin novel is told by a 19-year-old black girl named
Tish in a New York City ghetto about how she fell in love with a
young black man, Fonny. He got framed on a rape charge and she got
pregnant before they could marry and move into their loft; but Tish
and her family Finance a trip to Puerto Rico to track down the rape
victim and rescue Fonny, a sculptor with slanted eyes and treasured
independence. The book is anomalous for the 1970's with its Raisin
in the Sun wholesomeness. It is sometimes saccharine, but it
possesses a genuinely sweet and free spirit too. Along with the
reflex sprinkles of hate-whitey, there are powerful showdowns
between the two black families, and a Frieze of people who - unlike
Fonny's father - gave up and "congregated on the garbage heaps of
their lives." The style wobbles as Tish mixes street talk with
lyricism and polemic and a bogus kind of Young Adult hesitancy.
Baldwin slips past the conflict between fighting the garbage heap
and settling into a long-gone private chianti-chisel-and-garret
idyll, as do Fonny and Tish and the baby. But Baldwin makes the
affirmation of the humanity of black people which is all too
missing in various kinds of Superfly and sub-fly novels. (Kirkus
Reviews)
The inspiration for the new film from Oscar award-winning director
Barry Jenkins 'Achingly beautiful' Guardian 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. 'If Beale Street
Could Talk affirms not only love between a man and a woman, but
love of a type that is dealt with only rarely in contemporary
fiction - that between members of a family' Joyce Carol Oates
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