num_pages: 221
description: Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. 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 storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves.
language: English
title: Go tell it on the mountain
titlecomplete: Go tell it on the mountain
genres: Race, Literature, Novels, Religion, Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, African American, Literary Fiction, American
ratings_count: 65581
places: New York City, New York
publisher: Dell