Go Tell It on the Mountain

Go Tell It on the Mountain - Paperback

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Go Tell It on the Mountain - Paperback

Go Tell It on the Mountain - Paperback

by James Baldwin
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Book Overview

James Baldwin's bestselling first novel--a coming-of-age story that depicts incredible resilience in pursuit of self-invention, now hailed as an American classic

"A novel of extraordinary sensitivity and poetry."--Chicago Tribune

Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood in Harlem. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage born of compassion, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a Pentecostal storefront church in Harlem. Baldwin's rendering of a young person's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understood themselves.
ISBN9780375701870
Author James Baldwin
PublisherVintage
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2013
LanguageENG- English
Pages240
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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JAMES BALDWIN (1924-1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay collections Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time were bestsellers that made him an influential figure in the growing civil rights movement. Baldwin spent much of his life in France, where he moved to escape the racism and homophobia of the United States. He died in France in 1987, a year after being made a Commander of the French Legion of Honor.

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