Go tell it on the mountain

Baldwin, James 1924-1987 (author.).

Summary: "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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780345806550
ISBN: 0345806557
ISBN: 9780345806543
ISBN: 1299823068
ISBN: 9781299823068
ISBN: 9780375701870
ISBN: 0375701877
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource.
Publisher: New York : Vintage International, [2013]
Copyright: ©1981

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:	Pt. 1. The seventh day -- pt. 2. The prayers of the saints. Florence's prayer ; Gabriel's prayer ; Elizabeth's prayer -- pt. 3. The threshing-floor.
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