In one of the greatest American classics,Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy’s discovery of the terms of his identity.Baldwin’s rendering of his protagonist’s spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention 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 ofthe 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.”

With vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details … [a] feverish story. The New York Times

• Series:Vintage International
• Paperback:272 pages
• Publisher:Vintage; Reprint edition (September 12, 2013)
• Language:English
• ISBN-10: 0375701870
• ISBN-13: 9780375701870
• Product Dimensions:4.2 x 0.7 x 6.9 inches
• Shipping Weight:4.8 ounces