book cover of If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

If Beale Street Could Talk

Novel by James Baldwin

Blurb

If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin's fifth novel, is a love story set in Harlem in the early 1970s. The title is a reference to the 1916 W.C. Handy blues song "Beale Street Blues".

First Published

1974

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