Tell me how long the train's been gone
a novel
by James Baldwin
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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 Leo's 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 Leo's 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.
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Heart, Patients, Diseases, Successful people, African American actors, Fiction, American literature, LGBTQ novels before Stonewall, Fiction, general, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Acteurs noirs américains, Romans, nouvelles, Cardiaques, GagneursPeople
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Harlem, prison, the theater, Harlem (New York, N.Y.)Showing 2 featured editions. View all 25 editions?
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Tell me how long the train's been gone: a novel
1998, Vintage International
in English
- 1st Vintage International ed.
0375701893 9780375701894
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Originally published : New York : Dial Press, 1968.
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