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Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin
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One of the most brilliant and provocative American writers of the twentieth century chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention in this “truly extraordinary” novel (Chicago Sun-Times).

Baldwin's classic novel opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves. 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."
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Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Kindle Book

  • Release date: September 17, 2013

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  • ISBN: 9780345806550
  • Release date: September 17, 2013

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  • ISBN: 9780345806550
  • File size: 2272 KB
  • Release date: September 17, 2013

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Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
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subjects

Fiction African American Fiction Literature

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:970
Text Difficulty:5-7

One of the most brilliant and provocative American writers of the twentieth century chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention in this “truly extraordinary” novel (Chicago Sun-Times).

Baldwin's classic novel opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves. 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."
Expand title description text
Fiction African American Fiction Literature