![]() ![]() Laughter, with a touch of the Messianic in his nature and a good deal of the trapped animal, had armed John's mother and accepted John in explanation of his own carnal sins. As a matter of fact, John and his real father had never known of each other's existence Gabriel Grimes, a preaching widower up from the South, hard, without Sects that ululate in converted stores around Harlem, the metropolis of grief. This experience is a fit, a brutal, unexpected seizure: for poor little John Grimes is the son, or thinks he is, of a deacon in one of the stomping, moaning, falling The organizing event of the book is a 14-year-old boy's first religious experience. Its story as an accumulation of shocks (as most novels of Negro life do), or by puffing into a rigid metaphysical system (as most novels about religion do) it makes its utterance by tension and friction. His book is about pietism in Harlem and, of the three sorts of novel (string, wind and percussion). Go Tell It On the Mountain By DONALD BARR ![]()
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