Go Tell It on the Mountain
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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, 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.
James Baldwin’s stunning first novel is now an American classic. With startling realism that brings Harlem and the black experience vividly to life, this is a work that touches the heart with emotion while it stimulates the mind with its narrative style, symbolism, and excoriating vision of racism in America. Moving through time from the rural South to the northern ghetto, starkly contrasting the attitudes of two generations of an embattles family, Go Tell It On The Mountain is an unsurpassed portrayal of human beings caught up in a dramatic struggle and of a society confronting inevitable change. The most important novel written about the American Negro, says Commentary . It is written with poetic intensity and great narrative skill, writes Harper’s . Saturday Review praises it as masterful, and the San Francisco Chronicle declares that this important American novel is brutal, objective and compassionate.
| Book Author | James Baldwin |
|---|---|
| Book Series | Vintage International |
| ISBN | 9780440330073 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Dell |
| Publication Date | 06-01-1980 |
| Format | eBook |
| Pages | 176 |
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