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If Beale Street could talk / James Baldwin.

by Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.

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Laurel, 1986, c1974.

False imprisonment -- Fiction

Blacks -- Fiction

9780525566120 (2018 Vintage International movie tie-in trade pbk.)

9780307275936 (2006 Vintage International trade pbk.)

0440340608 (1986, Laurel)

213 p. ; 18 cm.

"Copyright renewed 2002 by Gloria Baldwin Karefa-Smart."--T.p. verso 2006 Vintage ed.

"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."--Back cover

Literary fiction.

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