Go Tell It on the Mountain

One of the most brilliant and provocative American writers of the twentieth century chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy''s spiritual sexual and moral struggle of self-invention in this “truly extraordinary” novel (Chicago Sun-Times).Baldwin''s classic novel 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.