Go Tell It on the Mountain

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."Publisher: VintagePublished: 09/12/2013Pages: 240Weight: 0.54lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.26w x 0.73dISBN: 9780375701870About the AuthorJames Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924, and educated in New York. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mounta