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This haunting coming-of-age story, based in part on James Baldwin's childhood in Harlem, is an American classic. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was Baldwin's first major work. With a potent combination of lyrical compassion and resonant rage, he portrays... Read Full Overview

In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity--told "with vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details ... a] feverish story" (The New York Times).

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'Go back to where you started, or as far back as you can, examine all of it, travel your road again and tell the truth about it. Sing or shout or testify or keep it to yourself: but know whence you came.'

A deluxe edition of James Baldwin's haunting coming-of-age story, with a new introduction by Roxane Gay and special cover art designed by Baldwin's friend and contemporary Beauford Delaney

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... Read Full Overview

For use in schools and libraries only. Using as a frame the spiritual and moral awakening of 14-year-old John Grimes during a Saturday night service in a Harlem storefront church, Baldwin lays bare the secrets of a tormented black family during the depression.