Go Tell It on the Mountain |
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Author:
| Baldwin, James |
Series title: | Vintage International Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-345-80654-3 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2013 |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Imprint: | Vintage |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $8.99 |
Book Description:
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In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity--told "with vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details ... [a] feverish story" (
The New York Times). 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...
More Description In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity--told "with vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details ... [a] feverish story" (The New York Times).
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."