Description
Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin is now available as an Audiobook in a Card – a beautiful greeting card that unlocks the complete audiobook.
About the book:
James Baldwin's electrifying first novel.
'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.'
Drawing on James Baldwin's own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes. Johnny is destined to become a preacher like his father, Gabriel, at the Temple of the Fire Baptized, where the church swells with song and it is as if 'the Holy Ghost were riding on the air'. But he feels only scalding hatred for Gabriel, whose fear and fanaticism lead him to abuse his family. Johnny vows that, for him, things will be different. This blazing tale is full of passion and guilt, of secret sinners and prayers singing on the wind.
'His prose hit me, almost winding me with its intensity. I'd never read a novel that described loneliness and desire with such burning eloquence' Douglas Field, Guardian
'A beautiful, enduring, spirtual song of a novel' Andrew O'Hagan
Perfect for: birthdays, Christmas, Father's Day, graduation
A thoughtful gift for: James Baldwin readers, literary fiction lovers, students, teachers, modern classic readers
Categories: modern classics, literary fiction, African American literature, coming-of-age fiction, classic literature
Narrator: Joe Morton, Roxane Gay, Andrew O'Hagan
Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
AVAILABLE IN THE UK ONLY
