Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
Leo Proudhammer collapses on stage at the height of a career that carried him out of Harlem and into the American theater, and the months in bed give him time to go back over how he got there. His older brother Caleb, the white actress Barbara King and a young man from the movement named Christopher have each asked something of him he is not sure he can pay. Baldwin's fourth novel, written across the years of the marches and the assassinations, and the book his critics used to declare him finished.
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