Showing posts with label go tell it on the mountain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label go tell it on the mountain. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 26

Go Tell it On the Mountain by James Baldwin

Hello my lovely readers! I'm really making headway on my 10 Books 10 Decades Challenge  just before the year end. I only have two more books to read and I'll have completed it. This was my first James Baldwin read and wow...what a book. Let's get into it. 

SYNOPSIS
Baldwin's classic novel opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin tells the story of the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Originally published in 1953, Baldwin said of his first novel, " Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else."