Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin

Go Tell It on the Mountain

By James Baldwin

  • Release Date: 2013-09-12
  • Genre: Literary Fiction
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 228 Ratings

Description

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."

Reviews

  • A hard slough

    2
    By grandmamamarazzi
    I love to read. This book, however was just too abstract for my tastes. It felt like something I would have been assigned for homework in the 1960s. It really had no narrative. Sorry I stuck it out to the end
  • The journey to rebirth

    5
    By Wwwolffy
    With passion and poetry and artistry we see into the vivid world of James Baldwin.... Each character is lovingly etched into the family and we are forever touched and moved by their personal struggles of survival.