| Go Tell It on the Mountain Contributor(s): Baldwin, James (Author), Danticat, Edwidge (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1101907614 ISBN-13: 9781101907610 Publisher: Everyman's Library OUR PRICE: $21.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction - Fiction | African American - Christian - Fiction | African American - Urban |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| LCCN: 2015039908 |
| Lexile Measure: 970 |
| Series: Contemporary Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.2" W x 8.1" (0.88 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Religious Orientation - Christian - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Sex & Gender - Gay |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This haunting coming-of-age story, based in part on James Baldwin's childhood in Harlem, is an American classic. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was Baldwin's first major work. With a potent combination of lyrical compassion and resonant rage, he portrays a fourteen-year-old boy questioning the terms of his identity. John Grimes is the stepson of a fire-breathing and abusive Pentecostal preacher in Harlem during the Depression. The action of this short novel spans a single day in John's life, and yet manages to encompass on an epic scale his family's troubled past and his own inchoate longings for the future, set against a shining vision of a city where he both does and does not belong. Baldwin's story illuminates the racism his characters face as well as the double-edged role religion plays in their lives, both oppressive and inspirational. In prose that mingles gritty vernacular cadences with exalted biblical rhythms, Baldwin's rendering of his young protagonist's struggle to invent himself pioneered new possibilities in American language and literature. Introduction by Edwidge Danticat |