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Go Tell It on the Mountain

A Novel (Vintage International)

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Go Tell It on the Mountain

Written by: James Baldwin, Roxane Gay - introduction
Narrated by: Roxane Gay, Joe Morton
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James Baldwin's haunting coming-of-age story, with a new introduction by Roxane Gay.

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.

©1952 James Baldwin (P)2024 Random House Audio Coming of Age Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction

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“With vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details, Mr. Baldwin has told his feverish story.”—The New York Times

“Brutal, objective and compassionate.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“It is written with poetic intensity and great narrative skill.”—Harper’s

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A story like no other

Attend unto the Bible and the preachings of the lord. But learn from them. Fine story of life and finding your way. Well read.

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