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Original Title:	If Beale Street Could Talk
ISBN:	0307275930 (ISBN13: 9780307275936)
Edition Language:	English

If Beale Street Could Talk Paperback | Pages: 197 pages

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In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. 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.

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Title	:	If Beale Street Could Talk
Author	:	James Baldwin
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 197 pages
Published	:	October 10th 2006 by Vintage (first published 1974)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Cultural. African American. Audiobook

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This is a brilliant novel about systemic racism and its social and psychological effects, but it is also a book about the strength of black families and communities as well as the power of solidarity. Set in Harlem in the 1970's, Baldwin tells the story of Tish and Fonny, two young lovers who have known each other all their lives. Fonny gets falsely accused of a crime he didn't commit and is wrongfully imprisoned, then Tish finds out she's pregnant - what will become of their romantic love story

I've never come across a Baldwin read I didn't love. Beale Street 'talked' something sexual and consciously charged. It is profound and suspenseful storytelling (I think I was on page 78 and still didn't know why Fonny was locked up, yet I went along patiently and willingly). This book is very different from the lyricism that is Go Tell It on the Mountain and Giovanni's Room, but the love story and angst is Baldwinian. I don't think I've come across such a vivid portrait of the urban,

In one of the more memorable lines of "To Kill a Mockingbird", Atticus Finch tells his daughter Scout to never judge a man until she's walked a mile in his shoes. The lesson, of course, is that it is not possible to walk a mile in another man's shoes (and therefore impossible to ever really know him), and therefore we should never judge.So if it is impossible to walk in another man's shoes, as an author James Baldwin gets us as close to this as is possible. His writing of disenfranchised

A lyrical, rapturous, beautifully written short novel about love in the face of brutal injustice.Fonny and Tish are a young Black couple in early 1970s New York City. Fonny has been falsely accused of raping a Puerto Rican woman and is in prison; Tish, who narrates most of the book, is pregnant. Their families especially Tish's are working to get Fonny out of jail, but then, as now, the odds are stacked against a young Black man, especially when there's a racist cop looking to pin something on

At the center of Baldwins critique on the universality of oppression and pain is a love story that is both delicate and bold in its attempt to fight a system that would keep people of color from receiving the dignity they deserve. Through Tish, Baldwin has created not only a living breathing entity, that is so familiar you could mistake her for your own sister, but also a swirling metaphor for the power that earnest love can have on shaping the world around us and birthing the hope we all need

When it comes to writing a review for this, I prefer to share a small afterword as I prefer to let Baldwin's words speak rather than mine."I sat on the hassock, leaning on Daddy's knee. Now, it was seven o'clock and the streets were full of noises. I felt very quiet after my long day, and my baby began to be real to me. I don't mean that it hadn't been real before; but, now, in a way, I was alone with it. Sis had left the lights very low. She put on a Ray Charles record and sat on the sofa.I

I usually don't say that a book is unput-downable, because in my limited reading experience I have found very few books have been unput-downable. But here I am, late in the morning, waking up after unexpectedly finishing this book last night, having picked it up for a few more pages of progress before going to sleep, and then having been kept awake by the growing sense of unease and frustration until finally I finished it, turning that final electronic page, and feeling far from relieved by what