Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
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Baldwin's fourth novel recounts a lifetime of grappling with love, loss and identity
'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it'
At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, we see the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the world of the theatre lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. And everywhere there is the anguish of being black in a society that seems poised on the brink of racial war. In this tender, angry 1968 novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking characters- a man struggling to become himself.
Author: James Baldwin
Format: Paperback, 384 pages, 130mm x 197mm, 288 g
Published: 2018, Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Description
Baldwin's fourth novel recounts a lifetime of grappling with love, loss and identity
'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it'
At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, we see the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the world of the theatre lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. And everywhere there is the anguish of being black in a society that seems poised on the brink of racial war. In this tender, angry 1968 novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking characters- a man struggling to become himself.
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone