{"product_id":"go-tell-it-on-the-mountain","title":"Go Tell It on the Mountain","description":"\u003cp\u003eBaldwin, James\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"expandContent\" id=\"desc_summary0375701877-content\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eIn one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith 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.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details ... [a] feverish story.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random house","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":43696543072489,"sku":"9780375701870","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0406\/5548\/7129\/products\/9780375701870_5afb0.jpg?v=1663870511","url":"https:\/\/redstickreads.com\/products\/go-tell-it-on-the-mountain","provider":"Red Stick Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}