If Beale Street Could Talk
About this book
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.
Subjects
- african american fiction
- african american men
- african americans
- african americans, fiction
- american fiction (fictional works by one author)
- fiction
- injustice
- justice (virtue)
- large type books
- love stories
- man-woman relationships
- man-woman relationships, fiction
- new york (n.y.), fiction
- noirs américains
- prisons
- romance fiction
- romans, nouvelles
- teenage pregnancy