James Baldwin
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Mass Market Paperback
(Vintage Sept. 12, 2013)
, Reprint edition
"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.
- Series
- Vintage International
- ISBN
- 0345806549 / 9780345806543
- Pages
- 272
- Weight
- 4.8 oz.
- Dimensions
- 4.2 x 0.7 in.
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