Hardcover, 320 pages
English language
Published Sept. 26, 1995 by Modern Library.
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In 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.
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."
Subjects
- Literary studies: from c 1900 -
- Modern fiction
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
- Literature - Classics / Criticism
- American English
- English
- Literature: Classics
- Classics
- Sagas
- Fiction / General