# If Beale Street Could Talk

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- Book: [If Beale Street Could Talk](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-baldwin/if-beale-street-could-talk) ([If Beale Street Could Talk.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-baldwin/if-beale-street-could-talk.md))
- Authors: [James Baldwin](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-baldwin)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: audio
- Length: 7 h 7 min
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- ISBN: 978-18-0206-718-7
- Published: 2024-04-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 7 h 7 min

## Description

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