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If Beale Street Could Talk
- Author
- James Baldwin
- Narrator
- Bahni Turpin
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 4 April 2024
- Run Time
- 7 hours 7 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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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
©1974 James Baldwin (P)2024 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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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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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
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Truth-telling, witness bearing, soul stirring writing
Cornel West
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The spirit of Jimmy's work is of a high moral prophetic vision
Amriri Baraka
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One of the few essential novelists of our time
New Statesman
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Details
- Author
- James Baldwin
- Narrator
- Bahni Turpin
- Duration
- 7 hours 7 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 April 2024
- ISBN
- 9781802067187
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Classic fiction: general and literary, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.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©1974 James Baldwin (P)2024 Penguin Audio
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