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Oct 10, 2006 · If Beale Street Could Talk. Paperback – October 10, 2006. by James Baldwin (Author) 5,222. See all formats and editions. From one of the most important writers of the twentieth century comes a stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime—"a moving, painful story, so ...
The fifth novel by celebrated author and activist James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk is a story of love, false imprisonment, and the struggle to live a free life in a racist society. First published in 1974, the book is told mostly from the perspective of Tish, a young Black woman in New York City working to get her boyfriend, Fonny, out ...
If Beale Street Could Talk Summary. Nineteen-year-old Tish visits Fonny, who’s imprisoned in “the Tombs” in Lower Manhattan. Through a glass divider, she tells Fonny she’s pregnant with his child. “Did you tell Frank ?” he asks, referring to his father, and Tish tells him she hasn’t told anyone but him.
A 22- year-old black man, a sculptor, is arrested and booked for a crime--rape of a Puerto Rican woman--which he did not commit. The only black man in a police line-up, he is "identified" by the distraught, confused woman, whose testimony is partly shaped by a white policeman. Fonny, the sculptor, is innocent, yet it is up to the accused and ...
If Beale Street Could Talk Full Book Summary. Tish and Fonny are childhood friends who have fallen in love and plan to get married. At the story’s beginning, Fonny is in jail and Tish is three months pregnant. Tish shares the news first with Fonny and then with her mother, Sharon, her father, Joseph, and her sister, Ernestine.
Jan 1, 1974 · 4.6 5,231 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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.
- James Baldwin
If Beale Street Could Talk is a 1974 novel by James Baldwin that tells the story of Tish Rivers and Fonny Hunt, a young couple in Harlem who face a mounting set of difficulties. Fonny is...
