Go Tell It on the Mountain (Deluxe Edition) -- James Baldwin

<b>A deluxe edition of James Baldwin's haunting coming-of-age story, with a new introduction by Roxane Gay and a stunning package.</b> <p/>Originally published in 1953, <i> Go Tell It on the Mountain</i> 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.<br><br><b>Author:</b> James Baldwin<br><b>Publisher:</b> Vintage<br><b>Published:</b> 06/18/2024<br><b>Pages:</b> 256<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.61lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.00h x 5.19w x 0.72d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780593688977<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>JAMES BALDWIN (1924-1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His first novel, <i>Go Tell It on the Mountain</i>, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay collections <i>Notes of a Native Son</i> and <i>The Fire Next Time</i> were bestsellers that made him an influential figure in the growing civil rights movement. Baldwin spent much of his life in France, where he moved to escape the racism and