Go Tell It on the Mountain
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin is a reprint edition published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on September 12, 2013. This 240-page novel explores the spiritual, sexual, and moral struggles of a fourteen-year-old boy as he navigates his path to self-invention. Set against the backdrop of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem during March of 1935, Baldwin’s work delves into themes of family life and identity within the context of African American experiences.
Readers will find a narrative rich in lyrical precision and psychological depth, as Baldwin chronicles the protagonist’s journey through a complex landscape of faith and personal discovery. The novel’s symbolic power and emotional resonance invite reflection on the broader implications of self-understanding and societal roles. With its focus on urban life and family dynamics, this edition of Go Tell It on the Mountain continues to be a significant contribution to literary discussions surrounding African American literature and the human experience.
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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.”
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