James Baldwin and Britain

Norman Shrapnel review of Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone

Source: The Guardian

Guardian, June 28, 1968. p.7

‘A Declaration of War’, Norman Shrapnel

New fiction reviews including Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone.

‘He has gone for the broad impact, perhaps believing that the message will register better if expressed in traditional terms. The result is that he leaves us, admiring yet unsatisfied with a passionately mournful sermon’.