This book contains violent and/or sexual content.
AuthorJames Baldwin
NarratorBahni Turpin
Duration7h 6m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Classics, Novels
PublisherPenguin Books Ltd
VersionUnabridged
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The inspiration for the new film from Oscar award-winning director Barry Jenkins
'Achingly beautiful' Guardian
Harlem in the 1970s: the black soul of New York City. Tish is nineteen and the man she loves - her lifelong friend and the father of her unborn child - has been jailed for a crime he did not commit. As their families come together to fight for his freedom, will their love be enough?
'Soulful . . . Racial injustice may flatten "the black experience" into one single, fearful, constantly undermined way of life - but black life, black love, is so much larger than that . . . It's one of the signature lessons of Baldwin's work that blackness contains multitudes' Vanity Fair
'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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Author: James Baldwin
Author James Baldwin
Narrator The Author
Duration 18h 58m
James Baldwin was an American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western society, most notably in regard to the mid-twentieth-century United States.This is a collection of his speeches and lectures.
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Author Debbie Johnson
Narrator Dawn Murphy
Duration 9h 50m
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Author Abbi Waxman
Narrator Jessica Preddy
Duration 9h 28m
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Author: Jane Fallon
Author Jane Fallon
Narrator Jo Joyner
Duration 10h 8m
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Narrator Adenrele Ojo
Duration 11h 32m
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Author Douglas Stuart
Narrator Angus King
Duration 17h 41m
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Author: James Baldwin
Author James Baldwin
Narrator Ron Butler
Duration 5h 4m
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Author Curtis Sittenfield
Narrator Carrington Macduffie
Duration 13h 58m
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Author: James Baldwin
Author James Baldwin
Narrator Matthew Bomer, Kevin Young
Duration 6h 4m
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Narrator Kevin R. Free
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