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.”
Author: James Baldwin
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/12/2013
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.26w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9780375701870
Language: English
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