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   If Beale Street Could Talk is a 1974 novel by American writer James Baldwin. His fifth novel (and 13th book overall), it is a love story set in Harlem in the early 1970s. The title is a reference to the 1916 W.C. Handy blues song "Beale Street Blues", named after Beale Street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee.

   • Author: James Baldwin

   • Publish Year: 1974

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   Jan 1, 1974 · 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.

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   Jan 3, 2019 · If Beale Street Could Talk. Paperback – 3 Jan. 2019. 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.

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   • Author: James Baldwin

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   A short summary of James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of If Beale Street Could Talk.

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   Sep 17, 2013 · 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...

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   Oct 10, 2006 · 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.

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   What happens in if Beale Street could talk?

   • Two days later, Frank’s body is found in the woods in his car, with the doors locked and the motor running. As Joseph tells the family the news, Tish goes into labor. The book closes with Fonny sculpting, hearing the baby cry and cry. A short summary of James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk.

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   Why did James Baldwin write if Beale Street could talk?

   • "How James Baldwin's Writings About Love Evolved: The author is best known for arguing that emotional connection could help heal America's racial divides. But his 1974 novel If Beale Street Could Talk focused instead on the bonds that held black people together".

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   Is Beale Street based on a true story?

   • Beale Street is the first Baldwin novel to focus exclusively on a Black love story; it is also the only novel in his corpus narrated by a woman. Published at the tail end of the Black Arts Movement, it explores love within Black life, centering on the emotional bonds holding two African American families together.

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   Is Blackness a defining lesson of Baldwin's Vanity Fair 'if Beale Street could talk'?

   • 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

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