Go Tell It On The Mountain

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 Series: Vintage International Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (September 12, 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 0375701870 ISBN-13: 9780375701870 Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 0.7 x 6.9 inches Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces