Tell Me How Long the Trains Been Gone
Tell Me How Long the Trains Been Gone '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…
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Tell Me How Long the Trains Been Gone
'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. 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. As he hovers between life and death, we see the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable.
In this tender, angry 1968 novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking characters: a man struggling to become himself. And everywhere there is the anguish of being black in a society that seems poised on the brink of racial war.