If Beale Street Could Talk
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Tish is nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. The two families struggle win justice for Fonny. ''Achingly beautiful'' Guardian Harlem, the black sou...
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Forlagsbeskrivelse af If Beale Street Could Talk af James Baldwin
Tish is nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. The two families struggle win justice for Fonny. ''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 OatesThe inspiration for Oscar award-winning film
Detaljer
Forlag
Penguin Classics
Udgave
0
ISBN
9780140187977
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
192
Udgivelsesdato
29-09-1994
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
2468758
EAN nr.
9780140187977
Varegruppe
Fiction
Højde/Dybde (mm)
15
Bredde (mm)
196
Længde (mm)
128
Vægt (g)
146