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If Beale Street Could Talk

B-format paperback
Taille reliureIf Beale Street Could Talk
ISBN/GTIN
CHF16.50
2.6 % TVA incluse

Produit

RésuméTish is nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. The two families struggle win justice for Fonny.
RésuméThe 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 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.

'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
Détails
ISBN/GTIN978-0-14-018797-7
Type de produitLivre
Type de reliureCartonné
FormatLivre broché format B
Pays de publicationRoyaume-Uni
Année de parution1994
Date de parution29.09.1994
SériePenguin Modern Classics
Pages192 pages
LangueAnglais
DimensionsLargeur 130 mm, Hauteur 198 mm, Épaisseur 12 mm
Poids147 g
BZ n°1302366

Contenu/Critiques

Critique
" One of the best books Baldwin has ever written- perhaps the best of all." - "The Philadelphia Inquirer" " A moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless." - "Joyce Carol Oates" " If Van Gogh was our nineteenth-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our twentiethth-century one." "- Michael Ondaatje" " Striking and particularly haunting. . . . A beauty, especially in its rendering of youthful passion." - "Cosmopolitan" " 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"plus

Auteur

James Baldwin was born in 1924 in New York. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), which evokes his experiences as a boy preacher in Harlem, was an immediate success. Baldwin´s second novel, Giovanni's Room (1956) has become a landmark of gay literature and Another Country (1962) caused a literary sensation. His searing essay collections Notes of a Native Son (1955) and Nobody Knows My Name (1961) contain many of the works that made him an influential figure in the Civil Rights Movement. Baldwin published several other collections of non-fiction, including The Fire Next Time (1963) and No Name in the Street (1972). His short stories are collected in Going to Meet the Man (1965). His later works include the novels Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (1968), If Beale Street Could Talk (1974) and Just Above My Head (1979).

James Baldwin won a number of literary fellowships: a Eugene F. Saxon Memorial Trust Award, a Rosenwald Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Partisan Review Fellowship and a Ford Foundation grant. He was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour in 1986. He died in 1987 in France
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