backJames Baldwin
1953

Tags: Black American lit, Classics
Knopf
English




ABOUT

James Baldwin's stunning first novel is now an  American classic. With startling realism that brings Harlem and the black experience vividly to life, this is a work that touches the heart with emotion while it stimulates the mind with its narrative style, symbolism, and excoriating vision of racism in America. 

Moving through time from the rural  South to the northern ghetto, starkly contrasting the  attitudes of two generations of an embattles family, Go Tell It On The Mountain is an unsurpassed portrayal of human beings caught  up in a dramatic struggle and of a society  confronting inevitable change. 

(Description source: back cover)