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List Price: $14.00Amazon.com's Price: $11.20 You Save: $2.80 (20%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385334570
ISBN: 0385334575
Label: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: June 13, 2000
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Release Date: June 13, 2000
Sales Rank: 12846
Studio: Dial Press Trade Paperback
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
"Mountain," Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a 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.
Amazon.com Review:
First published in 1953 when James Baldwin was nearly 30, Go Tell It on the Mountain is a young man's novel, as tightly coiled as a new spring, yet tempered by a maturing man's confidence and empathy. It's not a long book, and its action spans but a single day--yet the author packs in enough emotion, detail, and intimate revelation to make his story feel like a mid-20th-century epic. 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. John's parents, praying beside him, both wrestle with the ghosts of their sinful pasts--Gabriel, a preacher of towering hypocrisy, fathered an illegitimate child during his first marriage down South and refused to recognize his doomed bastard son; Elizabeth fell in love with a charming, free-spirited young man, followed him to New York, became pregnant with his son, and lost him before she could reveal her condition.
Baldwin lays down the terrible symmetries of these two blighted lives as the ironic context for John's dark night of the soul. When day dawns, John believes himself saved, but his creator makes it clear that this salvation arises as much from blindness as revelation: "He was filled with a joy, a joy unspeakable, whose roots, though he would not trace them on this new day of his life, were nourished by the wellspring of a despair not yet discovered."
Though it was hailed at publication for its groundbreaking use of black idiom, what is most striking about Go Tell It on the Mountain today is its structure and its scope. In peeling back the layers of these damaged lives, Baldwin dramatizes the story of the great black migration from rural South to urban North. "Behind them was the darkness," Baldwin writes of Gabriel and Elizabeth's lost generation, "nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire--a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!" This is Baldwin's music--a music in which rhapsody is rooted anguish--and there is none finer in American literature. --David Laskin
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It's funny, the reviewer below me also first read this back in the 70's - as did I. I started out the unofficial beginning of this Fall by re-reading the "classics." Some are actual classics, and others are Lit i have left over from college and high school. Not sure where this one fits in.
I just finished this book, and feel it's one of the best books i ever read. It's not an "easy read." You do have to get ready to understand the jumping back and forth to different eras. But once ... Read More
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I wanted to dislike this book. James Baldwin is anathema to me--but this book--as a work of art, as an example of human effort--is outstanding.
Not at first, though. The exordium is tedious and boring, and I was flipping pages with alacrity, saying to myself: "AHA! Overrated! And I know why." But once the narrative sea-legs get set with the history of Gabriel Grimes, the novel becomes special. You can tell Baldwin read almost every book in his local library, and that he had uncommon talent ... Read More
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I was excited to read this book, however turned out disappointed. The book revolves around several different individual plots that are hard to follow. The characters are confusing, and there is no division between the present and the past. The whole time, I felt a negativity towards Christianity (even though I am a Christian). Also, I was shocked by the amount of sexual material in a book focused on Christianity in the African American Church. It is weird to be reading about breasts in the same book ... Read More
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The first time I encountered this book was on a summer reading list in middle school. The title alone was so appealing I spend the rest of English class daydreaming what it was about. I didn't get around to actually reading it for nearly 30 years. Now I wish I had read it much sooner.
Not then, at the tender age of 13. The rude realities of Harlem life circa 1930 come at you right away. Never mind that the protagonist, John, is 14; I probably wouldn't have gotten very far given the novel's unsentimental ... Read More
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James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain
deals with a lot of issues that are explored
in all of his works. The themes of religion,
identity and sexuality, which were themes
that were very taboo at the time and in some
ways still are. I think most of the bad
reviews on here are either people not sure
of their own religious beliefs. I will agree
though that this is not Baldwin's best work;
that is conferred upon Going to Meet the Man,
Giovanni's Room and ... Read More
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