James Baldwin and Britain

John Coleman review of Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone

Source: The Observer

Observer, June 23, 1968. p.24

‘In Baldwin Country’, John Coleman

Reviews Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone:

‘JB’s long new novel is often very good, as good as anything he has done to date, but it also impresses me as a tired book, as if a remarkable writer had suddenly found himself the prisoner and not the proprietor of his matter’.