Go Tell It on the Mountain

"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," originally published in 1953, is Baldwin s first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, re [...]
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"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," originally 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 one Saturday in March of 1935of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a Pentecostal storefrontchurch in Harlem. Baldwin s rendering of his protagonist s spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle toward self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves."