Go Tell It on the Mountain

By James Baldwin

Subjects: Racism, FICTION / African American / General, FICTION / African American / Urban Life, Blind, books and reading, Literature, African Americans, FICTION / Classics, African americans, fiction, Religion, Christian sects, Fiction, general, African American men, Fiction, african american, general, National Black Family Month, Fiction, african american & black, general, Black people, African American families, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Children's fiction, FICTION / African American / Christian, Classic literature, American literature, Men, FICTION / Gay

Description: In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity. 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."