If Beale Street Could Talk: James Baldwin
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The inspiration for the new film from Oscar award-winning director Barry Jenkins Achingly beautiful Guardian Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. the narrator of Baldwins novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. Flashbacks from their love affair are woven into the compelling struggle of two families to win justice for Fonny. To this love story James Baldwin brings a spare and impassioned intensity, charging it with universal resonance and power. 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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The inspiration for the new film from Oscar award-winning director Barry Jenkins Achingly beautiful Guardian Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. the narrator of Baldwins novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. Flashbacks from their love affair are woven into the compelling struggle of two families to win justice for Fonny. To this love story James Baldwin brings a spare and impassioned intensity, charging it with universal resonance and power. 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
AmazonPagina's: 192, Editie: Eerste editie, Paperback, Penguin Group
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