If Beale Street Could Talk
Kshs 1,200.00
The inspiration for the new film from Oscar award-winning director Barry Jenkins’Achingly beautiful’ Guardian Harlem in the 1970s: the black soul of New York City. Tish is nineteen and the man she loves – her lifelong friend and the father of her unborn child – has been jailed for a crime he did not commit. As their families come together to fight for his freedom, will their love be enough?’Soulful .
. . Racial injustice may flatten ‘the black experience’ into one single, fearful, constantly undermined way of life – but black life, black love, is so much larger than that .
. . It’s one of the signature lessons of Baldwin’s work that blackness contains multitudes’ Vanity Fair’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
- Classifications: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945),
- Readership:General (US: Trade)
- Format: Paperback softback 192 pages
ISBN : 9780241384503
Published : 3 Jan 2019
Author : James Baldwin
Main Material : Paperback softback
Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd
Size : 198 x 129 (mm)
Weight : N/A
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