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One of the most brilliant and provocative American writers of the twentieth century chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention in this “truly extraordinary” novel (Chicago Sun-Times). Baldwin's classic novel 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."
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Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin
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- Released
- 2013
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- James Baldwin
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 2013
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 226
- ISBN10
- 0375701877
- ISBN13
- 9780375701870
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Religious Topics, Classics, Family, LGBTQ+, USA, American Literature, Faith, Life, Coming Of Age, Race, Racism, Violence, 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
- One of the most brilliant and provocative American writers of the twentieth century chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention in this “truly extraordinary” novel (Chicago Sun-Times). Baldwin's classic novel 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."