Overview
One of the most brilliant and provocative American writers of the twentieth century chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention in this "truly extraordinary" novel (Chicago Sun-Times).
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."
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780375701870
- ISBN-10: 0375701877
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: September 2013
- Dimensions: 8 x 5.26 x 0.73 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.54 pounds
- Page Count: 240
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