Go Tell It on the Mountain

ISBN-13:	9780375701870
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	09/12/2013
Series:	Vintage International
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	15,357
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile:	970L (what's this?)

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."