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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.
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"If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one."
--Michael Ondaatje
"A major work of black American fiction... His best novel yet, even Baldwin's most devoted readers are due to be stunned by it."
--The New Republic
"Emotional dynamite... a powerful assault upon the cynicism that seems today to drain our determination to confront deep social problems."
--Library Journal
"A moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless."
--The New York Times Book Review
--Michael Ondaatje
"A major work of black American fiction... His best novel yet, even Baldwin's most devoted readers are due to be stunned by it."
--The New Republic
"Emotional dynamite... a powerful assault upon the cynicism that seems today to drain our determination to confront deep social problems."
--Library Journal
"A moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless."
--The New York Times Book Review
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- PublisherDial Press
- Publication date1974
- ISBN 10 0718111265
- ISBN 13 9780718111267
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages230
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If Beale Street Could Talk
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. In blue boards with silver type to spine. Bottom corners dinged and some pale foxing to page ends with some spots at bottom and to first and last several pages. Otherwise clean with solid binding. Jacket is unclipped (3.00 pounds) with 1/2 inch puncture to front panel near spine, light wear/nicks to spine ends and top of front flap and pale foxing to flaps. Very faint fading to spine that is barely perceptible. 1st Printing. Seller Inventory # LPB007275JB
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Book Description second printing, 1974. a love story set in new york city's harlem in the early 70s. '"beale street" was the first baldwin novel focusing exclusively on a black couple; it was also his only work narrated by a woman. london: michael joseph. hardcover. isbn: 0718111265. 5.25 x 8". 229 pages. book condition: near fine. jacket condition: unclipped (£3.00). near fine. Seller Inventory # 599
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Love story set in Harlem in the early 1970s. It was adapted into the Academy Award-winning film of the same name in 2018. CONDITION Blue bds with gilt title (unworn with sharp cnrs) 230 pages. Copy is very bright and crisp. Top cnr of front end page is snipped. Original DJ is in archival cover, unworn. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 16893
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