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

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