Go Tell It On The Mountain

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"WITH VIVID IMAGERY, WITH LAVISH ATTENTION TO DETAILS, MR. BALDWIN HAS TOLD HIS FEVERISH STORY."* James Baldwin's sturining first növel is now an American classic. With startiing realism that brings Harlem and the black experience vividly to life, this is a work that touches the heart with emotion while it stimulates the mind with its narrative style, symbolism, and excoriating vision of racism in America. Moving through time from the rural South to the northern ghetto, starkly contrasting the attitudes of two generations of an embattled family Go Teli It on the Mountain is an unsurpassed portrayal of humán beings caught up in a dramatic struggle and of a society confronting inevitable change. "The most important növel written about the American Negro" says Commentary. "It is written with poetic intensity and great narrative skill," writes Harpefs. Commonweal finds it "strong and powerful" Saturday Review praises it as "masterfuí," and the San Francisco Chronicle declares that this... Tovább

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"WITH VIVID IMAGERY, WITH LAVISH ATTENTION TO DETAILS, MR. BALDWIN HAS TOLD HIS FEVERISH STORY."* James Baldwin's sturining first növel is now an American classic. With startiing realism that brings Harlem and the black experience vividly to life, this is a work that touches the heart with emotion while it stimulates the mind with its narrative style, symbolism, and excoriating vision of racism in America. Moving through time from the rural South to the northern ghetto, starkly contrasting the attitudes of two generations of an embattled family Go Teli It on the Mountain is an unsurpassed portrayal of humán beings caught up in a dramatic struggle and of a society confronting inevitable change. "The most important növel written about the American Negro" says Commentary. "It is written with poetic intensity and great narrative skill," writes Harpefs. Commonweal finds it "strong and powerful" Saturday Review praises it as "masterfuí," and the San Francisco Chronicle declares that this important American növel is "brutal, objective and compassionate." James Baldwin, one of America's most celebrated authors, has written fifteen books and coauthored four others. His widely acclaimed works have profoundly altered America's social and literary consciousness. Among his awards are the Partisan Review Fellowship, a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. *The New York Times Vissza