James Baldwin

Go Tell it on the Mountain

'Penguin Modern Classics'. Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 256 Seiten
ISBN 0141185910
EAN 9780141185910
Veröffentlicht Oktober 2001
Verlag/Hersteller Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
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Beschreibung

"Nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire - -a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!"
First published in 1953, Baldwin's first novel is a short but intense, semi-autobiographical exploration of the troubled life of the Grimes family in Harlem during the Depression.

Portrait

Born in Harlem in 1924, Baldwin had an early career as a teenage preacher. He lived in Paris from 1948-1956 and his first novels, the autobiographical GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN and GIOVANNI'S ROOM established him as a promising novelist and anticipated some of the themes of his later works, such as racism and sexuality. He became a prominent spokesperson for racial equality, especially during the civil rights movement. He lived in France during his last years. Baldwin died in 1987.