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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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Tyler Martin
reviewed Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone on January 15, 2018 Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
I was a bit anxious to read this one because lately I've been eagerly declaring that Baldwin (with Stefan Zweig) is my favourite -or at least the most versatile and ahead of his era- writer.
Baldwin's essay collections are sublime and even (or better: certainly) today quintessential reading. But his novels, man! Don't misjudge his scope: he goes way further than the afro-American struggle theme he's famous for. I actually know few writers with such depth and insight in the human psyche and such accurate drawing of real life characters.
My advice on diving into his fiction:
Commence with Giovanni's room,
continue with Another country
and please don't skip Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone. The latter is in some parts a little less lucid and inviting as the others, but what this author does with the English language and storytelling is of another level. The power, anger, love, fear, hope, ambition, all with such a personal and yet universal quality and timbre to it.
It is rare to find a book which you want to savour and devour at the same time: slowly reading line by line tasting it's poetry and urgently turning pages to find out what's ahead.
Next time somebody claims Philip Roth is entitled to winning the Nobel prize, I will ask if he or she read enough Baldwin.
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