Go Tell It on the Mountain

In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity. 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.

With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin tells the story of the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Originally published in 1953, Baldwin said of his first novel, Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else.

"With vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details ... [a] feverish story." --The New York Times

Author: James Baldwin
Publisher: Turtleback
Published: 02/01/2021
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781663604569
ISBN10: 1663604568
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | African American & Black | Urban & Street Lit
- Fiction | Family Life | General

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