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Omari Weekes has, more recently, described Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone as "criminally underread", noting how the novel's descriptions of "the loneliness of being Black in a white room" and Leo Proudhammer's attempts to navigate being perceived as "too young, gifted and Black" continue to resonate strongly in the twenty-first century.
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. 496 pages, Paperback.
Summary. “Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone” tells the story of a ten-year-old African American who struggles to make his way in a racist world and encounters various obstacles ...
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. “Baldwin is one of the few genuinely indispensable American writers.” —Saturday Review
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone: A Novel. Capa comum – 17 fevereiro 1998. 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. "Baldwin is one of the few genuinely indispensable American writers."
"Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone - Bibliography." Comprehensive Guide to Short Stories, Critical Edition, edited by Charles E. May, eNotes.com, Inc., 2004 ...
His new novel, "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone" is his attempt to recreate, as an artist this time, the tragic condition of the Negro, in America. He has not been successful; this is a simpleminded, one-dimensional novel with mostly cardboard characters, a polemical rather than narrative tone, weak invention and poor selection of incident.
