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Go Tell It on the Mountain

ID 312612
Slug go-tell-it-on-the-mountain
Contributors
Author : James Baldwin
Annotation
Description In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity. 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.<br></br><br></br>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." <br></br><br></br>"With vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details ... [a] feverish story." -The New York Times
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Subjects
300 Literaire fictie algemeen NUR
NSTC
Publisher Vintage US
Imprint
Language eng
Page count 263
Duration
Publication date first 2013-09-01
Publication date latest 2013-09-01
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Editions
  • ISBN: 9780345806543 (BC)

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