{"product_id":"go-tell-it-on-the-mountain-paperback","title":"Go Tell It on the Mountain - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Baldwin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne 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 (\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBaldwin'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, \"\u003ci\u003eMountain\u003c\/i\u003e is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924, and educated in New York. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eGo Tell It on the Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews and immediately was recognized as establishing a profound and permanent new voice in American letters. \"Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else,\" he remarked. Baldwin's play \u003ci\u003eThe Amen Corner\u003c\/i\u003e was first performed at Howard University in 1955 (it was staged commercially in the 1960s), and his acclaimed collection of essays Notes of a Native Son, was published the same year. A second collection of essays, \u003ci\u003eNobody Knows My Name\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1961 between his novels \u003ci\u003eGiovanni's Room\u003c\/i\u003e (1956) and \u003ci\u003eAnother Country\u003c\/i\u003e (1961). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe appearance of \u003ci\u003eThe Fire Next Time\u003c\/i\u003e in 1963, just as the civil rights movement was exploding across the American South, galvanized the nation and continues to reverberate as perhaps the most prophetic and defining statement ever written of the continuing costs of Americans' refusal to face their own history. It became a national bestseller, and Baldwin was featured on the cover of Time magazine. Critic Irving Howe said that \u003ci\u003eThe Fire Next Time\u003c\/i\u003e achieved \"heights of passionate exhortation unmatched in modern American writing.\" In 1964 \u003ci\u003eBlues for Mister Charlie\u003c\/i\u003e, his play based on the murder of a young black man in Mississippi, was produced by the Actors Studio in New York. That same year, Baldwin was made a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and collaborated with the photographer Richard Avedon on \u003ci\u003eNothing Personal\u003c\/i\u003e, a series of portraits of America intended as a eulogy for the slain Medger Evers. A collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eGoing to Meet the Man\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1965, and in 1968, \u003ci\u003eTell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone\u003c\/i\u003e, his last novel of the 1960s appeared. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the 1970s he wrote two more collections of essays and cultural criticism: \u003ci\u003eNo Name in the Street\u003c\/i\u003e (1972) and \u003ci\u003eThe Devil Finds Work\u003c\/i\u003e (1976). He produced two novels: the bestselling \u003ci\u003eIf Beale Street Could Talk\u003c\/i\u003e (1974) and \u003ci\u003eJust Above My Head\u003c\/i\u003e (1979) and also a children's book \u003ci\u003eLittle Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e (1976). He collaborated with Margaret Mead on \u003ci\u003eA Rap on Race\u003c\/i\u003e (1971) and with the poet-activist Nikki Giovanni on \u003ci\u003eA Dialogue\u003c\/i\u003e (1973). He also adapted Alex Haley's \u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography of Malcolm X\u003c\/i\u003e into \u003ci\u003eOne Day When I Was Lost.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the remaining years of his life, Baldwin produced a volume of poetry, \u003ci\u003eJimmy's Blues\u003c\/i\u003e (1983), and a final collection of essays, \u003ci\u003eThe Price of the Ticket\u003c\/i\u003e. Baldwin's last work, \u003ci\u003eThe Evidence of Things Not Seen\u003c\/i\u003e (1985), was prompted by a series of child murders in Atlanta. Baldwin was made a Commander of the French Legion of Honor in June 1986. Among the other awards he received are a Eugene F. Saxon Memorial Trust Award, a Rosenwald fellowship, a Guggenheim fellowship, a Partisan Review fellowship, and a Ford Foundation grant. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJames Baldwin died at his home in Saint-Paul-de-Vence in France on December 1, 1987.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.73 x 8 x 5.26 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 12, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45085104832688,"sku":"9780375701870","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1121\/0060\/files\/TUpKQ0dRMFlIVEw3TWtQVHBCU3Ztdz09.webp?v=1777996912","url":"https:\/\/sidekicksptown.com\/products\/go-tell-it-on-the-mountain-paperback","provider":"Sidekicks Ptown","version":"1.0","type":"link"}