If Beale Street Could Talk

by James Baldwin · first published 1974

If Beale Street Could Talk is a 1974 novel by American writer James Baldwin. His fifth novel (and 13th book overall), it 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", named after Beale Street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee. A film adaptation was released in 2018.

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Original language:

English

Reader rating:

★ 4.3 / 5 (18 on Open Library)

Year page:

1974