If Beale Street Could Talk

Informationen zum Autor James Baldwin was born in 1924 in New York. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), which evokes his experiences as a boy preacher in Harlem, was an immediate success. Baldwin’s second novel, Giovanni's Room (1956) has become a landmark of gay literature and Another Country (1962) caused a literary sensation. His searing essay collections Notes of a Native Son (1955) and Nobody Knows My Name (1961) contain many of the works that made him an influential figure in the Civil Rights Movement. Baldwin published several other collections of non-fiction, including The Fire Next Time (1963) and No Name in the Street (1972). His short stories are collected in Going to Meet the Man (1965). His later works include the novels Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (1968), If Beale Street Could Talk (1974) and Just Above My Head (1979). James Baldwin won a number of literary fellowships: a Eugene F. Saxon Memorial Trust Award, a Rosenwald Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Partisan Review Fellowship and a Ford Foundation grant. He was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour in 1986. He died in 1987 in France Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Report

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 Oates

Product details

• Authors: James Baldwin
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.09.1994
• EAN: 9780140187977
• ISBN: 978-0-14-018797-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Penguin Pocketbooks; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; Penguin Pocketbooks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Harlem, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Family life fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, c 1970 to c 1979, FICTION / Romance / African American & Black, FICTION / African American & Black / General, Relating to African American / Black American people