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If Beale Street Could Talk

  • James Baldwin

4.24

17 ratings

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.

Genres

  • African American fiction
  • Teenage pregnancy
  • Prisons
  • Injustice
  • Love stories
  • African Americans
  • Fiction
  • African American men
  • Man-woman relationships
  • Justice (Virtue)
  • African americans, fiction
  • American fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Man-woman relationships, fiction
  • New york (n.y.), fiction
  • Large type books
  • Noirs américains
  • Romans, nouvelles
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About the author

  • James Baldwin

    2 August 1924 - 30 November 1987

    4.22

    146 ratings · 104 works

Editions

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    Signet

    Mar 01, 1975

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    Znak

    Jun 02, 2019

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    Blackstone Audio, Inc.

    Feb 01, 2016

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    San Val, Perfection Learning

    Oct 10, 2006

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Vintage

Oct 30, 2018

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    Dell

    1988

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    Dial Press

    1974

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    Dial Press

    1974

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    Penguin

    1994

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    1st Vintage International ed.

    Vintage International

    2006

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    G.K. Hall

    1996

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    Joseph

    1974

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    Penguin Classics

    Jan 03, 2019

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    Delta

    June 13, 2000

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    Laurel

    January 1, 1986

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    Vintage

    October 10, 2006

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    Sagebrush Education Resources

    October 2001

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    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

    2024

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    עם עובד

    1974

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    Demco Media

    1988-05-01

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    Signet

    1975-06-01

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    Penguin Publishing Group

    1975

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    Penguin Publishing Group

    1975

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    Penguin Publishing Group

    1975

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    Penguin Publishing Group

    1975

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    Penguin Books, Limited

    1994

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    Stock

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    Rowohlt Tb.

    January 1, 1980

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    Corgi

    1975

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    Dell Publishing

    1988

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    Pbk. ed.

    New American Library.

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    [Book Club ed.]

    Dial Press

    1974

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    Corgi

    1975

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    Versal

    1987

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    Rowohlt

    1974

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    New American Library

    1975

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    Wolters-Noordhoff

    1995

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    Reissue edition

    Dell Publishing

    May 1988