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James Baldwin's stunning first novel is now an??American classic. With startling realism that brings??Harlem and the black experience vividly to life,??this is a work that touches the heart with emotion??while it stimulates the mind with its narrative??style, symbolism, and excoriating vision of racism??in America. Moving through time from the rural??South to the northern ghetto, starkly contrasting the??attitudes of two generations of an embattles??family, Go Tell It On The Mountain??is an unsurpassed portrayal of human beings caught??up in a dramatic struggle and of a society??confronting inevitable change. "The most important??novel written about the American Negro,"??says Commentary. "It is written??with poetic intensity and great narrative skill,"??writes Harper's.??Saturday Review praises it as "masterful,"??and the San Francisco Chronicle??declares that this important American novel is??"brutal, objective and compassionate."
James Baldwin's stunning first novel is now an??American classic. With startling realism that brings??Harlem and the black experience vividly to life,??this is a work that touches the heart with emotion??while it stimulates the mind with its narrative??style, symbolism, and excoriating vision of racism??in America. Moving through time from the rural??South to the northern ghetto, starkly contrasting the??attitudes of two generations of an embattles??family, Go Tell It On The Mountain??is an unsurpassed portrayal of human beings caught??up in a dramatic struggle and of a society??confronting inevitable change. "The most important??novel written about the American Negro,"??says Commentary. "It is written??with poetic intensity and great narrative skill,"??writes Harper's.??Saturday Review praises it as "masterful,"??and the San Francisco Chronicle??declares that this important American novel is??"brutal, objective and compassionate."
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