{"product_id":"9780140187977","title":"If Beale Street Could Talk","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Baldwin, James\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 29 September 1994 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Modern Classics' series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 192 pages\u003cbr\u003e196 x 128 x 15 | 148g\u003cp\u003eThe inspiration for the new film from Oscar award-winning director Barry Jenkins'Achingly beautiful' Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha  Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Baldwin, James","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42536880701624,"sku":"9780140187977","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9780140187977.jpg?v=1734750147","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9780140187977","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}