Add to Favorites; Classics. The story is told in flashbacks as Leo is recovering after having a heart attack on stage. Home » Reviews » TELL ME HOW LONG THE TRAIN'S BEEN GONE. Tell me how long the train ... Tell me how long the train’s been gone. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Iowa Review by an authorized administrator of Iowa Research Online. For more information, please contactlib-ir@uiowa.edu. TELL ME HOW LONG THE TRAIN'S BEEN GONE ... listeners meet most of the people who have been important in his life. Recommended Citation Thompson, Clifford. Author: James Baldwin Edition: First EditionFormat: ImportNumber Of Pages: 484Publisher: Dial PressRelease Date: 01-12-1968Details: Dial Press Hardcover Edition. Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25. In Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone Baldwin tells the story of Leo Proudhammer's life from his youth in Harlem to his rise to fame as an actor. Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone. Buy Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin from Waterstones today! "The Iowa Review29.2 (1999): 114-120. While Baldwin, over a past decade, has pixied into vascular self-contemplation, a new breed of lions has taken over the delineation of black identity, and this is obviously Baldwin struggling to find his place in line. "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone. His new novel, "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone" is his attempt to re-create, as an artist this time, the tragic condition of the Negro in America. Web. Train's been gone some time. Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone by James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, Sam Greenlee, Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes, Toni Cade Bambara, Walter Mosley, William Attaway, Zora Neale Hurston, Randall Kenan, Alain LeRoy Locke, Hannah Crafts, Lerone Bennett Jr., David Levering Lewis, Paule Marshall, Paul Laurence Dunbar