If Beale Street Could Talk
About “If Beale Street Could Talk”:
If Beale Street Could Talk is a 1974 novel by American writer James Baldwin. His fifth novel, it is a love story set in Harlem, New York City, 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.
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