Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book - Adult Fiction (Paperback)
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- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- A QBR 100 Essential Black Book
Vintage Books (Sep 12, 2013)
Paperback, 240 pages
Fiction
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Description of Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
“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.

- ISBN: 9780375701870
- Imprint: Vintage Books
- Publisher: Penguin Random House
- Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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