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While his family struggles with guilt, bitterness, and spiritual issues, John Grimes experiences a religious conversion in the Temple of the Fire Baptised.
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With vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details, Mr. Baldwin has told his feverish story. The New York Times
Brutal, objective and compassionate. San Francisco Chronicle
It is written with poetic intensity and great narrative skill. Harper s
Strong and powerful. Commonweal
A sense of reality and vitality that is truly extraordinary. . . . He knows Harlem, his people, and the language they use. Chicago Sun-Times
This is a distinctive book, both realistic and brutal, but a novel of extraordinary sensitivity and poetry. Chicago Sunday Tribune"
-With vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details, Mr. Baldwin has told his feverish story.- --The New York Times
-Brutal, objective and compassionate.- --San Francisco Chronicle
-It is written with poetic intensity and great narrative skill.- --Harper's
-Strong and powerful.- --Commonweal
-A sense of reality and vitality that is truly extraordinary. . . . He knows Harlem, his people, and the language they use.- --Chicago Sun-Times
-This is a distinctive book, both realistic and brutal, but a novel of extraordinary sensitivity and poetry.- --Chicago Sunday Tribune
"With vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details, Mr. Baldwin has told his feverish story." --The New York Times
"Brutal, objective and compassionate." --San Francisco Chronicle
"It is written with poetic intensity and great narrative skill." --Harper's "Strong and powerful." --Commonweal "A sense of reality and vitality that is truly extraordinary. . . . He knows Harlem, his people, and the language they use." --Chicago Sun-Times "This is a distinctive book, both realistic and brutal, but a novel of extraordinary sensitivity and poetry." --Chicago Sunday Tribune
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Brutal, objective and compassionate. San Francisco Chronicle
It is written with poetic intensity and great narrative skill. Harper s
Strong and powerful. Commonweal
A sense of reality and vitality that is truly extraordinary. . . . He knows Harlem, his people, and the language they use. Chicago Sun-Times
This is a distinctive book, both realistic and brutal, but a novel of extraordinary sensitivity and poetry. Chicago Sunday Tribune"
-With vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details, Mr. Baldwin has told his feverish story.- --The New York Times
-Brutal, objective and compassionate.- --San Francisco Chronicle
-It is written with poetic intensity and great narrative skill.- --Harper's
-Strong and powerful.- --Commonweal
-A sense of reality and vitality that is truly extraordinary. . . . He knows Harlem, his people, and the language they use.- --Chicago Sun-Times
-This is a distinctive book, both realistic and brutal, but a novel of extraordinary sensitivity and poetry.- --Chicago Sunday Tribune
"With vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details, Mr. Baldwin has told his feverish story." --The New York Times
"Brutal, objective and compassionate." --San Francisco Chronicle
"It is written with poetic intensity and great narrative skill." --Harper's "Strong and powerful." --Commonweal "A sense of reality and vitality that is truly extraordinary. . . . He knows Harlem, his people, and the language they use." --Chicago Sun-Times "This is a distinctive book, both realistic and brutal, but a novel of extraordinary sensitivity and poetry." --Chicago Sunday Tribune
'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.'
Drawing on James Baldwin's own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes. Johnny is destined to become a preacher like his father, Gabriel, at the Temple of the Fire Baptized, where the church swells with song and it is as if 'the Holy Ghost were riding on the air'. But he feels only scalding hatred for Gabriel, whose fear and fanaticism lead him to abuse his family. Johnny vows that, for him, things will be different. This blazing tale is full of passion and guilt, of secret sinners and prayers singing on the wind.
'A beautiful, enduring, spirtual song of a novel' Andrew O'Hagan
'With vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details, Mr. Baldwin has told his feverish story' The New York Times
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Book Description Compact Disc. Condition: new. Compact Disc. James Baldwin's stunning first novel is now an American classic. With startling 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, 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. Go Tell It on the Mountain is an unsurpassed portrayal of human beings caught up in a dramatic struggle and of a society confronting inevitable change. The story of John, a fourteen-year-old boy whose stepfather is a Pentecostal minister in Harlem in 1935, as he struggles to discover his own identity. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781620645437
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