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Go Tell It on the Mountain

By James Baldwin

By James Baldwin

By James Baldwin

By James Baldwin

By James Baldwin

By James Baldwin

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Part of Vintage International

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Paperback $15.00

Sep 12, 2013 | 240 Pages

Mass Market Paperback $7.99

Sep 12, 2013 | 272 Pages

Ebook $7.99

Sep 17, 2013 | 272 Pages

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    About 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, 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 1935 of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a Pentecostal storefront church 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.

    About 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, 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, resonating symbolic power, 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.

    About 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, 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, resonating symbolic power, 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.

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    I Am Not Your Negro
    Come Out the Wilderness
    Giovanni's Room
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    About James Baldwin

    James Baldwin (1924–1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay collections Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time were bestsellers that made him an… More about James Baldwin

    About James Baldwin

    James Baldwin (1924–1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay collections Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time were bestsellers that made him an… More about James Baldwin

    About James Baldwin

    James Baldwin (1924–1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay collections Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time were bestsellers that made him an… More about James Baldwin

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Vintage
    Sep 12, 2013 | 240 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375701870

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Mass Market Paperback | $7.99
    Published by Vintage
    Sep 12, 2013 | 272 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780345806543

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $7.99
    Published by Vintage
    Sep 17, 2013 | 272 Pages | ISBN 9780345806550

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    Praise

    “With vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details, Mr. Baldwin has told his feverish story.” —The New York Times
     
    “Brutal, objective and compassionate.” —San Francisco Chronicle
     
    “It is written with poetic intensity and great narrative skill.” —Harper’s
     
    “Strong and powerful.” —Commonweal
     
    “A sense of reality and vitality that is truly extraordinary. . . . He knows Harlem, his people, and the language they use.” —Chicago Sun-Times
     
    “This is a distinctive book, both realistic and brutal, but a novel of extraordinary sensitivity and poetry.” —Chicago Sunday Tribune

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