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  1. It’s a love that writhes in pain without its other half and it’s timeless through destruction. You know you love the characters when you feel like the ending was something that was taken from you without justice. You know you love them when the heartbreak you felt, felt personal.

  2. May 24, 1974 · IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK. by James Baldwin ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 24, 1974. This new Baldwin novel is told by a 19-year-old black girl named Tish in a New York City ghetto about how she fell in love with a young black man, Fonny. He got framed on a rape charge and she got pregnant before they could marry and move into their loft; but Tish and ...

  3. Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. In early 1970s Harlem, daughter and wife-to-be Tish vividly recalls the passion, respect and trust that have connected her and her artist fiancé Alonzo Hunt, who goes ...

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  4. 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.

  5. maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen? But that's really a terrible thought. It can only come out of trouble – trouble that doesn't make sense. Today, I went to see Fonny. That's not his name, either, he was christened Alonzo: and it might make sense if people called him Lonnie.

  6. If Beale Street Could Talk is told from the point-of-view of Tish Rivers, a 19-year-old from Harlem. In the first scene of the novel, Tish speaks to her lover, Fonny Hunt, who is in jail, and tells him she is pregnant. Fonny is in jail because he was falsely accused by a Puerto Rican woman, Mrs. Rogers, of raping her.

  7. Overview. 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 ...

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