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Go Tell It On The Mountain , first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical 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.
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Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin
- Language
- Released
- 1984
- Binding
- (Paperback),
- Book condition
- Good
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- Title
- Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Language
- English
- Authors
- James Baldwin
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Released
- 1984
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 237
- ISBN10
- 0552990434
- ISBN13
- 9780552990431
- Series
- Tags
- Religious Topics, Family, USA, American Literature, LGBTQ+, Faith, Life, Coming Of Age, Violence, Race, Racism, African American Literature, Homosexuality, Searching for Oneself
- First published
- 1953
- Original title
- Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- Go Tell It On The Mountain , first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical 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.