Description
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. "With vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details ... [a] feverish story." --The New York Times
Details
Author: |
James Baldwin |
ISBN 10: |
0345806549 |
Pages: |
272 |
Publisher: |
Vintage |
Publication Date: |
September 12, 2013 |
Binding: |
Paperback |
Weight: |
0.30lbs |
