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Barry Jenkins on If Beale Street Could Talk
We sat down with Oscar award-winning director Barry Jenkins, of If Beale Street Could Talk, to talk about his adaptation of the book, his appreciation for Baldwin and love of Penguin Classics book covers. Out now: https://amzn.to/2GrpcfN '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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to the Penguin channel: http://bit.ly/2ygTzig Follow us here: Twitter | http://www.twitter.com/penguinukbooks Website | http://bit.ly/xNmtGX Instagram | http://bit.ly/2ygyyo2 Facebook | http://bit.ly/2wmBKky

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