James Baldwin and Britain

Richard Lister review of Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone

Source: London Evening Standard

June 25, 1968 (page 11 of 44).

‘Books’

‘Baldwin, brilliant at avoiding the pitfalls’, Richard Lister

Extremely positive review of Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone. Lister writes in the opening paragraph of the article: ‘I don’t expect to read a better novel this year’.