Go Tell It On the Mountain
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Go Tell It On the Mountain

Written by:
James Baldwin
Narrated by:
Adam Lazarre-White

Unabridged Audiobook

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Book
53
Narrator
12
Release Date
January 2013
Duration
8 hours 45 minutes
Summary
One of the most brilliant and provocative American writers of the twentieth century chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy’s spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention in this “truly extraordinary” novel (Chicago Sun-Times).

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, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy’s discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. 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.
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Colette Thomas

This is an amazing book. It was my introduction to Baldwin, and I have completely fallen in love. I loved how the action of the novel takes place in a single day, yet by shifting viewpoints during a church service covers each characters' history. He writes his female characters beautifully. I plan to listen to this again so I can write down some of the phrases and passages. Now I'm listening to The Fire Next Time. I recommend that everyone read/listen to Baldwin--not just those who understand the culture or have time and inclination to try, as another reviewer suggested. This book is a great work of American literature.

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Jennifer S.

Beautiful book and fabulous reader. The story of the struggle of oppressed Black Americans is told within the context of a search for salvation through religion. A bit too much description about Christian faith and the Bible for me but the related story is lyrically sumptuous.

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Sasha Mesmain

Good book for people who can understand the culture and have the time to devote to it

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Mia Coleman

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Anonymous

Good listen! Narrator us good and easy to understand but for those who may not understand the times it may be a bit difficult to understand.

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Su S.

Great book

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Kawika S.

This book is AMAZING!!! This audio evokes the emotion of the passage well!!! Mr.Baldwin was and is a genius!

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