Go Tell It on the Mountain (Vintage International)
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- Synopsis
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"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.
- Copyright:
- 1981
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780345806550
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780345806543
- Publisher:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Date of Addition:
- 05/15/18
- Copyrighted By:
- James Baldwin
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.