Go Tell It on the Mountain (Hardcover)

'Go back to where you started, or as far back as you can, examine all of it, travel your road again and tell the truth about it. Sing or shout or testify or keep it to yourself: but know whence you came.' 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 towards self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understood themselves.

General

Imprint:	Everyman's Library
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Everyman's Library CLASSICS
Release date:	February 2016
Authors:	James Baldwin
Introduction by:	Edwidge Danticat
Dimensions:	211 x 133 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-1-84159-371-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Promotions
LSN:	1-84159-371-0
Barcode:	9781841593715

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