Go Tell It on the Mountain (Vintage International)

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.”” — ASIN: 0375701877 | ISBN13: 9780375701870 | ISBN-13: 978-0375701870