Go Tell It on the Mountain
Author(s): James Baldwin
"Mountain," Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Penguin Random House
- : Vintage
- : 0.132
- : 31 July 2013
- : 176mm X 109mm X 19mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : 272
- : 1312
- : Paperback / softback
- : James Baldwin