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Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin

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Jun 06, 2019 Blaine rated it liked it

Shelves: 2019, pc-100-essential-read, from-library

But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as walking on the road; the perspective to say the very least, changes only with the journey; only when the road has, all abruptly and treacherously, and with an absoluteness that permits no argument, turned or dropped or risen is one able to see all that one could not have seen from any other place.

Go Tell It on the Mountain is a novel full of people turning away—from each other, from t ...more

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Apr 14, 2020 Marie (UK) rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2020-reading-challenge

I have to think about what i want to say about this powerful book. It is so well written and the narrative pulls at the reader I can understand why it has become such a classic read. I am ashamed to say I had never heard of it before choosing to read it for a challenge a long while ago. I also put it off time and again but cannot understand why. It is difficult to explain its pull but it definitely had one

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