About the Book

" 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.

Product Details

Media: Paperback Book, 240 pages

Language: English

Publisher: Dial Press (Jun. 30th, 2000)

ISBN-10: 0385334575

ISBN-13: 9780385334570

Dimensions: 5.30 x 8.08 x 0.65 inches

Shipping Weight: 0.47 lbs

• Categories: Classics Fiction