| Go Tell It on the Mountain Contributor(s): Baldwin, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375701877 ISBN-13: 9780375701870 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | African American - Urban - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 970 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.26" W x 8" (0.54 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |