Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics) by Baldwin James

Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics) by Baldwin JamesGo Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, 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

A hilarious exploration of imagination

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life in the suburban fringeworlds at the edge of Australian cities

reveals the sheer power of the inner voice

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Who makes art history

In the midst of the Indonesian War of Independence

He also tells us something of ourselves that we need to hear

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as well as to their hopes and dreams

but this collection of letters exchanged for 40 years between two of Australia's most erudite authors shows what an important part of social history it is

Homeland Calling is a hip-hop poetry collection that channels culture and challenges stereotypes