Go Tell It on the Mountain

Description: 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.

Review Quotes: "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