Great product!</br></br>Product Description</br></br>"<b>Mountain</b>??"Baldwin said?? "s the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." <b>Go Tell It On The Mountain</b> 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.</br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>First published in 1953 when James Baldwin was nearly 30 <I>Go Tell  It  on the Mountain</I> 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 re"elation 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. <p>  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 a