Bibliograph

Go tell it on the mountain, James Baldwin

Type

Label

Go tell it on the mountain, James Baldwin

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Go tell it on the mountain

Oclc number

861360570

Responsibility statement

James Baldwin

Summary

"The haunting coming-of-age story that has become a major American classic, now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood in Harlem. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a Pentecostal storefront church in Harlem. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle toward self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understood themselves. Introduction by Edwidge Danticat"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

pt. 1. The seventh day -- pt. 2. The prayers of the saints. Florence's prayer ; Gabriel's prayer ; Elizabeth's prayer -- pt. 3. The threshing-floor

Target audience

adult

Classification