Verlag | Penguin Random House |
Auflage | 2013 |
Seiten | 240 |
Format | 13,2 x 20,3 x 1,8 cm |
Gewicht | 248 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
Reihe | Vintage International |
EAN | 9780375701870 |
Bestell-Nr | 37570187EA |
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).
Baldwin's classic novel opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin tells the story of the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Originally published in 1953, Baldwin said of his first novel, "Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else."
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With vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details, Mr. Baldwin has told his feverish story. The New York Times
Brutal, objective and compassionate. San Francisco Chronicle
It is written with poetic intensity and great narrative skill. Harper s
Strong and powerful. Commonweal
A sense of reality and vitality that is truly extraordinary. . . . He knows Harlem, his people, and the language they use. Chicago Sun-Times
This is a distinctive book, both realistic and brutal, but a novel of extraordinary sensitivity and poetry. Chicago Sunday Tribune