Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

A young black man in Harlem begins to confront the legacy of anger and guilt he has inherited from his family. The story also explores the ways in which racial oppression has shaped the life of the family and the ways in which they try to use religion to establish order amid the chaos created by racism and sex. James Baldwin's first major novel is based loosely on his own background.

Editions of Go Tell It on the Mountain

ISBN 9780385334570	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Delta	Date 2000	Price $2.85	Good
ISBN 9781569560600	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher William a Thomas Braille	Date 1992	Price None Available
ISBN 9780679601548	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Modern Library	Date 1995	Price $1.51	Used - Good
ISBN 9780808514169	Binding/Format Prebinding	Publisher Bt Bound	Date 1999	Price None Available
ISBN 9780440330073	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Random House Childrens Books	Date 1985	Price $1.00	Good +

Publisher Notes

James Baldwins 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. "The most important novel written about the American Negro," says Commentary. "It is written with poetic intensity and great narrative skill," writes Harper's. Saturday Review praises it as "masterful," and the San Francisco Chronicle declares that this important American novel is "brutal, objective and compassionate."