In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity—told “with vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details ... [a] feverish story" (The New York Times).
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.
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."
Product details
Attribute name |
Attribute value |
Author
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Baldwin, James |
Dimensions
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106 x 175 x 17 mm |
ISBN
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9780345806543 |
Language
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English |
Media type
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Paperback |
Original title
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Go Tell It on the Mountain |
Page count
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272 |
Product no
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9780345806543 |
Publish date
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2013-09-12 |
Publisher
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Penguin Random House US |
RRP List price
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8.99 USD |
Weight
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142 g |