James Baldwin

Vintage International Ser.

Go Tell It on the Mountain

813/.54

21

Trade Paperback

Fiction

0375701877

9780375701870

Trade

0.7 in

8 in

8.4 Oz

5.2 in

52-012199

English

240 Pages

2013

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

"With vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details, Mr. Baldwin has told his feverish story." -- The New York Times   "Brutal, objective and compassionate." -- San Francisco Chronicle   "It is written with poetic intensity and great narrative skill." -- Harper's   "Strong and powerful." -- Commonweal   "A sense of reality and vitality that is truly extraordinary. . . . He knows Harlem, his people, and the language they use." -- Chicago Sun-Times   "This is a distinctive book, both realistic and brutal, but a novel of extraordinary sensitivity and poetry." -- Chicago Sunday Tribune

" Mountain ," Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It on the Mountain , originally published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a 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 one Saturday in March of 1935 of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a Pentecostal storefront church in Harlem. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle toward self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves., 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.", 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

Family Life, African American / General, Literary, African American / Urban

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

9780375701870