02144cam a2200337 i 4500 1041372770 TxAuBib 20231203120000.0 161107s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015039908 9781101907610 HRD 24.00 1101907614 HRD 24.00 (OCoLC)911063698 TxAuBib rda Baldwin, James, 1924-1987, author. Go tell it on the mountain [BOOK] / by James Baldwin ; with an introduction by Edwidge Danticat. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. xxvii, 236 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Everyman's library ; 371 Includes bibliographical references (page xv). "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 parton 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 asthe 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. 20231203. African American men Fiction. Harlem (New York, N.Y) Fiction. Coming of age Fiction. Everyman's library ; 371.