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Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone - James Baldwin
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
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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... show more
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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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780375701894 (0375701893)
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 496
Edition language: English
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Domhnall
Domhnall rated it
5.0 Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone
Early in this novel, Baldwin devotes a few pages to a humorous comparison of the ways French, Swiss and Italian border guards behave: the French being rude and inefficient, the Swiss intensely serious, efficient and systematic, the Italians rather surprised that one had bothered to visit their count...
philoSophie
philoSophie rated it
4.0 Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
There is a truth in the theater and there is a truth in life - they meet, but they are not the same, for life, God help us, is the truth. And those disguises which an artist wears are his means, not of fleeing from the truth, but of attempting to approach it.Ο Baldwin έχει μοναδικό ταλέντο στο να εμ...
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