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

"Tragedy calls out for a great artist, revolution for a true prophet. Six years ago James Baldwin predicted the black revolution that is now changing our society. His new novel...is his attempt to re-create, 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....The construction of the novel is theatrical, tidily nailed into a predictable form."Baldwin, James is the author of 'Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone A Novel', published 1998 under ISBN 9780375701894 and ISBN 0375701893.