TELL ME HOW LONG THE TRAIN'S BEEN GONE
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New York : Dell, 1969 . First US paperback edition of Baldwin's criminally underrated Weekes fourth novel about the life of a Black actor. Near fine. Item #51064 TELL ME is the story of Black actor Leo Proudhammer, his brilliant career shadowed by the condescension, alienation, and physical threats visited on him by a white America that will tolerate him only so far as he entertains, and which exacts heavy penalties
- Binding: Paperback
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