If Beale Street could talk
by James Baldwin
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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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African American fiction, Teenage pregnancy, Prisons, Injustice, Love stories, African Americans, Fiction, African American men, Man-woman relationships, Justice (Virtue), African americans, fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Man-woman relationships, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Large type books, Noirs américains, Romans, nouvellesShowing 5 featured editions. View all 38 editions?
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If Beale Street could talk: a novel
2006, Vintage International
in English
- 1st Vintage International ed.
0307275930 9780307275936
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