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Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin (1998, Paperback, Reprint)

Author: James Baldwin
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 1998-02-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0375701893
ISBN-13: 9780375701894
Product ID: EPID495651
Description: Baldwin's politically charged novel is about a black actor who must reconcile himself to the many contradictions in his life: his success as an artist, his shattering childhood memories of growing up in Harlem, and his homosexuality.
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Synopsis
Baldwin's politically charged novel is about a black actor who must reconcile himself to the many contradictions in his life: his success as an artist, his shattering childhood memories of growing up in Harlem, and his homosexuality.

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Publication Date:1998-02-01
Edition Description:Reprint

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Length:484 pages
Height:8.0 in
Width:5.8 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:12.8 oz

Publisher's Note
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, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leos childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the intoxicating world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. An adored older brother vanishes into prison. There are love affairs with a white woman and a younger black man, each of whom will make irresistible claims on Leos loyalty. And everywhere there is the anguish of being black in a society that at times seems poised on the brink of total racial war. Overpowering in its vitality, extravagant in the intensity of its feeling, Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone is a major work of American literature.

In this magnificently passionate, angry, and tender novel, James Baldwin produced an indelible portrait of the artist as a young black man, or, rather, as a man struggling to juggle several identities -- racial, sexual, and political -- on the mercilessly floodlit stage of American public life. Struck down by a massive heart attack at the height of his career, actor Leo Proud-hammer hovers between life and death as he tries to make sense of the choices that have taken him this far. Baldwin follows him from his childhood on the streets of Harlem to his arrival in the intoxicating world of the theater; through wrenching love affairs with a white woman and a younger black man; and, above all, through the treacherous labyrinth of race, in which even (and especially) the most successful black man remains a perpetual outsider. Overpowering in its vitality, extravagant in the intensity of its feeling, Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone is a major work by one of our most important writers.

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"Tragedy calls out for a great artist, revolution for a true prophet. Six years ago James Baldwin predicted the black revolution that is now changing our society. His new novel...is his attempt to re-create, as an artist this time, the tragic condition of the Negro in America. He has not been successful; this is a simpleminded, one-dimensional novel with mostly cardboard characters, a polemical rather than narrative tone, weak invention, and poor selection of incident....The construction of the novel is theatrical, tidily nailed into a predictable form."
New York Times Book Review - Mario Puzo (06/23/1968)

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