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        Go Tell It On The Mountain


        setting

        Harlem, New York City

        time

        1930s

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1953

        page count

        288

        difficulty

        Difficult

        main characters

        Grimes Family, John Grimes

        Rip's impressions

        After Wright and Ellison, Baldwin had to find a new story to tell about his American culture, and he succeeds with much more harsh beauty than his predecessors. To read this is to see much of what went into Morrison's later success in her own story telling.

        first line

        Everyone had always said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father.

        last lines

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