{"product_id":"go-tell-it-on-the-mountain","title":"Go Tell It on the Mountain","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom one of the great American writers of the twentieth century--a coming-of-age story about a fourteen-year-old boy questioning the terms of his identity, the racism he faces, and the double-edged role of religion in his life. - Presented here in stunning hardcover with an introduction by Edwidge Danticat, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eEverything Inside.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Vivid imagery...lavish attention to details.... [A] feverish story.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1953, \u003ci\u003eGo Tell It on the Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e--based in part on James Baldwin's childhood in Harlem--was his first major work. With a potent combination of lyrical compassion and resonant rage, he portrays fourteen-year-old John Grimes, the stepson of a fire-breathing and abusive Pentecostal preacher in Harlem during the Depression. The action of this short novel spans a single day in John's life, and yet manages to encompass on an epic scale his family's troubled past and his own inchoate longings for the future, set against a shining vision of a city where he both does and does not belong. Baldwin's story illuminates the racism his characters face as well as the double-edged role religion plays in their lives, both oppressive and inspirational. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn prose that mingles gritty vernacular cadences with exalted biblical rhythms, Baldwin's rendering of his young protagonist's struggle to invent himself pioneered new possibilities in American language and literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEveryman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48608077709517,"sku":"9781101907610","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_709313cd-6a0a-428f-80f8-60b30ccf8b2b.jpg?v=1785534408","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/go-tell-it-on-the-mountain","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}