Bibliograph

Go tell it on the mountain, James Baldwin ; with an introduction by Edwidge Danticat

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Go tell it on the mountain, James Baldwin ; with an introduction by Edwidge Danticat

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page xv)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Go tell it on the mountain

Nature of contents

bibliography

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911063698

Responsibility statement

James Baldwin ; with an introduction by Edwidge Danticat

Series statement

Everyman's library, 371

Summary

"The haunting coming-of-age story that has become a major American classic, now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. 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. Introduction by Edwidge Danticat"--, Provided by publisher"A hardcover edition of James Baldwin's classic coming-of-age novel set in Harlem in the 1930s, with a new introduction by Edwidge Danticat"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Part One. The Seventh Day -- Part Two. The Prayers of the Saints. Florence's Prayer; Gabriel's Prayer; Elizabeth's Prayer -- Part Three. The Threshing-Floor

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