Go Tell It on the Mountain

"Go Tell It on the Mountain," originally 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 one Saturday in March of 1935of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a Pentecostal storefrontchurch in Harlem...