Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

OVERVIEW One of the most brilliant and provocative American writers of the twentieth century chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention in this “truly extraordinary” novel (Chicago Sun-Times).Baldwin's classic novel 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." PRODUCT INF Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage; Reprint edition (September 12, 2013) Language ‏ : ‎ English Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0375701877 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0375701870 Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7 ounces Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.2