Goodbye to Berlin
ISBN : 9780749390549
Set in the 1930s, Goodbye to Berlin evokes the glamour and sleaze, excess and repression of Berlin society. Isherwood shows the lives of people at threat from the rise of the Nazis : a wealthy Jewish heiress, Natalia Landauer, a gay couple, Peter and Otto, and an English upper-class waif, the divinely decadent Sally Bowles.
If Beale Street Could Talk
ISBN : 9780140187977
Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Pay Charles. The narrator of James Baldwin 's novel is Tish, nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. Flashbacks from their love affair are woven into the compelling struggle of two families to win justice for Fanny. To this love story Baldwin brings a spare and impassioned intensify, charging it with universal resonance and power.
