EVERYONE HAD ALWAYS said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father.
An edition of Go Tell It on the Mountain
(1952)
Go tell it on the mountain
and related readings
by James Baldwin
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The story of John Grimes, a young Black man living in Harlem in the 1930s and his relationship with his strict storefront preacher-father, Gabriel, who had moved from the South to escape his past. The story also follows the difficult passage of the son of a stoically courageous mother to manhood amid the family's past from the Deep South to Depression-era Harlem.
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Go tell it on the mountain
2013, Vintage International
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
June 13, 2000, Dial Press Trade Paperback
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Go tell it on the mountain: and related readings
1998, McDougal Littell
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Go Tell it on the Mountain.
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Table of Contents
Go tell it on the mountain -- novel by -- James Baldwin
Notes of a native son -- essay by -- James Baldwin
The whipping -- poem by -- Robert Hayden
The revelation -- poem by -- James Wright
Bright Thursdays -- short shory by -- Olive Senior
The man of Adamant -- short story by -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The pot maker -- play by -- Marita Bonner
Forgiveness in families -- short story by -- Alice Munro -- selection from
A Bintel brief -- letters from the-- Jewish Daily Forward.
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970 Lexile. (Go tell it on the mountain)
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In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity. 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.
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."
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