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
Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin & Andrew O'Hagan
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