" Mountain ," Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It on the Mountain , originally published in 1953, is Baldwin\'s first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic.
With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy\'s discovery one Saturday in March of 1935 of the terms of hi. " Mountain ," Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It on the Mountain , originally published in 1953, is Baldwin\'s first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic
