Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin [1963 PAPERBACK]

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin FOURTH PAPERBACK PRINTING [1963] SIGNET  Vintage paperback in excellent condition.   Some edge / shelf wear to an overall excellent and clean cover.  Reads like new with inevitable tanning to pages.  Go Tell It On The Mountain is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical 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.