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Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

By James Baldwin

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About the book

In this tender, impassioned fourth novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking characters: a man struggling to become himself.'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. As he hovers between life and death, we see the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival...Show more

Book details

ISBN

9780241342039

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2018

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

Format

Paperback

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