Go Tell It on the Mountain

Go Tell It on the MountainIn 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

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

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/12/2013
ISBN: 9780375701870
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.26w x 0.73d