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Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone is James Baldwin 's fourth novel, first published in 1968. Plot. Leo Proudhammer, an African-American actor who grew up in Harlem and later moved into Greenwich Village, has a heart attack while on stage.
James Baldwin. 4.30. 4,047 ratings412 reviews. 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.
About Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone. A major work of American literature from a major American writer that powerfully portrays the anguish of being Black in a society that at times seems poised on the brink of total racial war.
by James Baldwin. Start Free Trial. Summary. Themes. Questions & Answers. Analysis. Style and Technique. PDF Cite. This first-person narrative is told through the eyes of a ten-year-old African...
Six years ago, James Baldwin predicted the black revolution that is now changing our society. His new novel, "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone" is his attempt to recreate,...
ISBN: 9780375701894. Plaza de edición: NUEVA YORK 1998. Fecha de lanzamiento: 22/02/2000. Escrito por... James Baldwin es el escritor de color más conocido en los Estados Unidos. Es también el más contradictorio. Nació en 1924 en Harlem y creció en un ambiente de estricta formación protestante. A los quince años fue predicador dominical.
Recent critical writings would lead one to believe that the post-1964 Baldwin. viewed American society in the crudest possible terms: white equals evil, all controlling oppressor, black equals noble, helpless oppressed. To read Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone is to be disabused of this notion.
