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Go Tell it on the Mountain (Modern Library (Hardcover)) (Hardback)
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Short Description for Go Tell it on the MountainJames Baldwin's portrayal of black people in Harlem caught up in a dramatic struggle, and of a society confronting inevitable change.
Full description- Publisher: Random House Inc
- Published: 01 August 1995
- Format: Hardback 291 pages
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- Categories: Literary Studies: From C 1900 - | Contemporary Fiction | Classics | Sagas
- ISBN 13: 9780679601548 ISBN 10: 0679601546
- Sales rank: 451,918
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Full description for Go Tell it on the Mountain
"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, first 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 of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. 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.
