Go Tell It on the Mountain

ISBN-13:	9780375701870
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	09/12/2013
Series:	Vintage International
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	23,818
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile:	970L (what's this?)

"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, 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.