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If Beale Street Could Talk
If Beale Street Could Talk
Author: James Baldwin
The relationship between two lovers and their families is the focus of If Beale Street Could Talk (1974). The novel concerns the hypocrisy found in the church and relationships between family membersespecially sisters, who for the first time make a serious appearance in Baldwins work.
ISBN-13: 9780803741690
ISBN-10: 0803741693
Pages: 197
Edition: 1st
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Publisher: The Dial Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD
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Excellent representation of American Black Fiction. The story beats a cadence with the blues music of Beale St. renown. The gritty pain, bitterness, love, and hope evident in that kind of music resonates throughout the novel. And the characters are so realistic and personable that the storyline seems all the more real. Great book!
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He and she are in love: she naturally being pregnant, he landing in jail on a trumped-up charge. So, as far as the story takes the reader, this is about her quest to free him and bring about justice. Except that there is no justice for a black when the charge is created by a corrupt white cop. Another episode in Baldwin's Harlem.


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