In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin’s story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime ...
In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin’s story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions–affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche.
James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic.
James Baldwin offered a vital literary voice during the era of civil rights activism in the 1950s and '60s. He was the eldest of nine children; his stepfather was a minister. At age 14, Baldwin became a preacher at the small Fireside Pentecostal Church in Harlem. In the early 1940s, he...
James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic.
James Baldwin offered a vital literary voice during the era of civil rights activism in the 1950s and '60s. He was the eldest of nine children; his stepfather was a minister. At age 14, Baldwin became a preacher at the small Fireside Pentecostal Church in Harlem. In the early 1940s, he transferred his faith from religion to literature. Critics, however, note the impassioned cadences of Black churches are still evident in his writing. Go Tell It on the Mountain, his first novel, is a partially autobiographical account of his youth. His essay collections Notes of a Native Son, Nobody Knows My Name, and The Fire Next Time were influential in informing a large white audience.
From 1948, Baldwin made his home primarily in the south of France, but often returned to the USA to lecture or teach. In 1957, he began spending half of each year in New York City. His novels include Giovanni's Room, about a white American expatriate who must come to terms with his homosexuality, and Another Country, about racial and gay sexual tensions among New York intellectuals. His inclusion of gay themes resulted in a lot of savage criticism from the Black community. Eldridge Cleaver, of the Black Panthers, stated the Baldwin's writing displayed an "agonizing, total hatred of blacks." Baldwin's play, Blues for Mister Charlie, was produced in 1964. Going to Meet the Man and Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone provided powerful descriptions of American racism. As an openly gay man, he became increasingly outspoken in condemning discrimination against lesbian and gay people.
On November 30, 1987 Baldwin died from stomach cancer in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France. He was buried at the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, near New York City.
“Only a man can see in the face of a woman the girl she was. It is a secret which can be revealed only to a particular man, and, then, only at his insistence. But men have no secrets, except from women, and never grow up in the way women do. It is very much harder, and it takes much longer, for a man to grow up, and he could never do it at all without women. This is a mystery which can terrify and immobilize a woman, and it is always the key to her deepest distress. She must watch and guide, but he must lead, and he will always appear to be giving far more of his real attention to his comrades than he is giving to her. But that noisy, outward openness of men with each other enables them to deal with the silence and secrecy of women, that silence and secrecy which contains the truth of a ma... (查看原文)
杜先菊 拿到《如果比尔街可以作证》（If Beale Street Could Talk）时，我并不知道詹姆斯·鲍德温是谁，也没有读过他的小说。 看他的照片，瘦骨嶙峋，也没有马上产生似曾相识的亲切感。 然而，打开小说，第一句，就觉得亲近。是一个女孩子蒂希的自述。 我平时接触的黑人并不多...
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“Beale Street was built on memories – good and bad.” 什么是比尔街？ 它是“ahistoric commercial street in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, that is associated with black music and commerce.”是“the home of blue”，是黑人文化的象征。小说并不发生在这条街道上，...
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菊子
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老彭是個书脊党
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里亚朵夫
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叁小丁点儿
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花开为底迟
我不是陈长珊
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2 有用 headradio 2018-12-22 05:33:08
很惊讶这么适合改编成电影的著名小说，今年才有人拍。对话张力十足，人物心理和形象描述精准，还带着Baldwin写作中一贯以之的充满力量的愤怒感，而对爱情的描述又温柔让人动容。他的小说文笔比他的随笔好很多
0 有用 安达鲈鱼 2024-03-20 09:57:23 美国
特别好啊特别好，Baldwin，好温柔
0 有用 EternalSummer 2024-04-21 12:33:02 美国
Speak up. HE can’t hear you.
0 有用 Ginchan🍓🥛 2023-12-18 17:22:54 河南
And trouble, here, means danger.
0 有用 三点水 2019-11-28 12:29:02
Baldwin never disappoints. Great psychological depiction of young people in love, and people in despair who have not lost hope. Open ending 扎心了。