Go Tell It on the Mountain

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James Baldwin: Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)

256 pages

English language

Published Nov. 7, 1953 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

ISBN:
978-0-385-27053-3
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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. 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."

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Subjects

  • American fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Fiction, general
  • African americans, fiction