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...Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin. Intensely written novel of life in Harlem (TIME...
...TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN (303 pp.) -James Baldwin-Knopf...
Fourteen-year-old John is the hero of Go Tell It on the Mountain, a first novel by a 28-year-old Negro who sometimes writes with the powerful rocking rhythms of a storefront-church meeting. Author James Baldwin's own father was a Harlem clergyman, and the church scenes in go Tell It are as compelling as anything that has turned up in a U.S. novel this year. Watch Preacher Elisha: "At one moment, head thrown back, eyes closed, sweat standing on his brow, he sat at the piano, singing and playing; and then, like a great black...
Near the end of Go Tell It, Johnny, too, is saved, in a scene so intense that God's presence seems to live on the page. But before that, the secret sufferings of a dozen people have been relentlessly exposed, and the sufferings of Baldwin's race have brought forth the harsh resentments of author and characters alike. Baldwin, for so good a writer, allows himself the luxury of a silly statement: "I wanted my people to be people first, Negroes almost incidentally." People they certainly are, but so movingly and intensely Negro that any reader listening...
Borge uses one prop-his piano-and as he says, "The Steinway people have asked me to announce that this is a Baldwin." Borge may begin by playing "Happy Birthday" as Bach, Brahms, or Berlin would have written it, or he may ask for requests. In the latter case, he will make appropriate substitutions for the numbers he can not play: the lady who asked for "Doggie in the Window" had to be content with "Trees...