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Title	:	Go Tell It on the Mountain
Author	:	James Baldwin
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	2001 by Penguin (first published 1952)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Cultural. African American. Literature. Religion. Novels

Go Tell It on the Mountain Paperback | Pages: 256 pages

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Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. 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 as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. 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.

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Original Title:	Go Tell It on the Mountain
ISBN:	0141185910 (ISBN13: 9780141185910)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	New York City, New York(United States)

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Like the previous Baldwin books I've read, this book is charged with a deep sense of longing and discovery. At the centre of the story is John, an awkward fourteen year old African American boy who grapples with the uncertainty of his place in the world. Set in the first half of the 20th century, mostly in New York and with parts in America's South, Baldwin narrates with great eloquence of the struggle of life and the role of Faith in it.I believe great books, like this one, disrobe us, in the

This novel is partially autobiographical and tells the story of a day in the life of 14 year old John Grimes and his preacher stepfather (Gabriel), his mother and his aunt with plenty of flashbacks to build the scene. It is centred on the life of the Pentecostal Church and its role in the African-American community. Baldwin was also the son of a preacher and this is written with great passion and eloquence. The backdrop is late 1930s Harlem; but we are taken back to the South for Gabriels

I feel this one just wasn't for me. I didn't engage with this novel at all. I must say that it is written very well (obviously, it's Baldwin) but the overall story and characters didn't do much for me. I'm kinda disappointed tbh, this is Baldwin's most popular novel according to Goodreads but I personally think that Giovanni's Room blows this one out of the water.

Licha wrote: "Keyboard warriors. Lol."A pointless battle, indeed! :)

3 to 3.5Go Tell It on the Mountain is a very powerful book and I can tell why it is on many must read lists. Overall the way it was written was easy to get into and the journey into each specific character was interesting. The focus of the plot is religion and the hypocrisies around it that the author had experienced in his life. So, know that fact going in if you prefer to avoid mixing religious commentary into your reading.With the paragraph above you may wonder why I didnt rate this higher.

There will come a point in a young persons life when he will have to come face to face with the reality that his faith and his fascination with the world are clashing against each other and vying for the soul he so cherishes. The faith, the church, the temple, the mosque, the synagogue, they deny the world and wash themselves of anything in it that might stain the purity of their holy robes. The world, in turn, enchants and invalidates the faith till the faith is extinguished and the world is

This book will be the subject of a face to face book club discussion at my local independent bookshop Five Leaves later this month, and I am looking forward to the discussion. I had never read any Baldwin before, and for most of the first part, in which the main characters are introduced, I was wondering what I had let myself in for, partly because I have never been a believer in any form of religion, and I have never faced any family pressure to change that, nor have I lived anywhere like the