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, originally 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 one Saturday in March of 1935 of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a Pentecostal storefront church in Harlem. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle toward self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves.
General Information
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- : Random House New Zealand
- : Vintage
- : 0.238136
- : 01 January 2013
- : books
Other Specifications
- : James Baldwin
- : Paperback
- : 1312
- : en
- : 813/.54
- : 226