Go tell it on the mountain

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