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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.”
From the Publisher
Publisher : Vintage; Reprint edition (September 12, 2013)
Language : English
Paperback : 240 pages
ISBN-10 : 0375701877
ISBN-13 : 978-0375701870
Lexile measure : 970L
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 5.2 x 0.7 x 7.95 inches
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