Go Tell It on the Mountain
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (891 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 079279611X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 323 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Baldwin has told his feverish story." --"The New York Times"" ""Brutal, objective and compassionate." --"San Francisco Chronicle"" ""It is written with poetic intensity and great narrative skill." --"Harper's" "Strong and powerful." --"Commonweal" "A sense of reality and vitality that is truly extraordinary. "With vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details, Mr. He knows Harlem, his people, and the language they use." --"Chicago Sun-Times" "This is a distinctive book, both realistic and brutal, but a novel of extraordinary sensitivity and poetry." --"Chicago Sunday Tribune"
His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, received excellent reviews and was immediately recognized as establishing a profound and permanent new voice in American letters. He also adapted Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X into One Day When I Was Lost. His other collaborations include A Rap on Race with Margaret Mead and A Dialogue with the poet-
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. 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.. James Baldwin's stunning first novel is now an American classic. Moving through time from the rural South to the northern ghetto, 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
Get swept up in the beautiful, honest prose! While only being just barely over 220 pages long, this novel certainly has a family saga feel to it! It's also definitely one of those books that falls on my "multiple readings likely required to catch everything" list. No problem there though, because the writing here is stunning! Even when he talks about the most mundane, everyday moments, Baldwin's superb word choice just makes you want to wrap up in these stories, grim as they may be sometimes. The poet Langston Hughes had this to say of Baldwin:"He is thou. A Really Fine Novel - Semi Autobiographical This is an excellent semi autobiographical novel about an African American young man living in New York. He deals with his family, society, and church.The novel itself combines ethic dialogue with very artistic narrative. I felt that some of the narrative was drawn by bible stories. There is a passage near the end of the novel that reminded me of The Book of Ezekiel and The Book of Revelation. Many of the characters in the book had biblical names. One such character is Deborah and I felt there was some commonal. "I love this book" according to Breana. I love this book. I love the characters. I love the backstories that we get for the characters. I love how Baldwin inserts so many accurate characteristics of the Black church into this book. I always knew that I would love this book long before I read it, and it is quite true: I love this book. Read it for yourself, so you'll know why.