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Go Tell It on the Mountain (Modern Library)
Go Tell It on the Mountain - Modern Library Author: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, 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 th... more »at 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.« less
This beautifully written, semi-autobiographical story tells of a day in the life of a Pentacostal family in Harlem. In poetic prose, James Baldwin's young protagonist, who is "saved" on this day, shows us his Harlem, his family, and his church.