Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone: A Novel

Product Description <br/>[Read by Kevin Kenerly]<br/><br/> 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.<br/><br/> 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,<br/>Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone is a major work of American literature.<br/><br/><br/> Review <br/>''Baldwin is one of the few genuinely indispensable American writers.'' --Saturday Review<br/><br/>''He has not himself lost access to the sources of his being--which is what makes him read and awaited by perhaps a wider range of people than any other major American writer.'' --<br/>The Nation<br/><br/>''James Baldwin's story of the mid-century African American experience is told in the first person by the character Leo Proudhammer, ably voiced here by Kevin Kenerly.'' --<br/>AudioFile<br/> About the Author <br/>James Baldwin (1924 - 1987) is the author of more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, including<br/>Go Tell It on the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son, Another Country, and<br/>Blues for Mister Charlie. He received many awards and was made a commander of the Legion of Honor in 1986.