
In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity. 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. 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. "With vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details ... a] feverish story." --The New York Times
Author: James Baldwin
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/12/2013
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.26w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9780375701870
Author: James Baldwin
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/12/2013
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.26w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9780375701870
About the Author
James Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924, and educated in New York. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews and immediately was recognized as establishing a profound and permanent new voice in American letters. "Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else," he remarked. Baldwin's play The Amen Corner was first performed at Howard University in 1955 (it was staged commercially in the 1960s), and his acclaimed collection of essays Notes of a Native Son, was published the same year. A second collection of essays, Nobody Knows My Name, was published in 1961 between his novels Giovanni's Room (1956) and Another Country (1961).