If Beale Street Could Talk

de James Baldwin

Première publication en 1974 · 208 pages

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À propos de ce livre

Like the blues -- sweet, sad and full of truth -- this masterly work of fiction rocks us with powerful emotions. In it are anger and pain, but above all, love -- affirmative love of a woman for her man, the sustaining love of a black family. Fonny, a talented young artist, finds himself unjustly arrested and locked in New York's infamous tombs. But his girlfriend, Tish, is determined to free him, and to have his baby, in this starkly realisitic tale... a powerful endictment of American concepts of justice and punishment in our time.

  • African American fiction
  • Teenage pregnancy
  • Prisons
  • Injustice
  • Love stories
  • African Americans
  • Fiction
  • African American men

Critiques de lecteurs

  • Josh100/100

    If Beale St Could Talk is told from the perspective of an 18 year old, Tish, who finds out that she’s pregnant a few days after her fiancé is arrested and charged (falsely) with rape. The book is about her family’s efforts to free him, and the barriers they run into at every turn. Stories like this make me a feel a sense of claustrophobia - walls closing in. Her goal, to free her fiancé, isn’t…

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