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Upon its publication, Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone received largely negative reviews. White male critics, such as Mario Puzo, tended to suggest that Baldwin's politics had compromised its literary merits. Puzo's review for The New York Times, called the book "simpleminded" and argued that a "propaganda novel" cannot be called art. [3]
James Wood in The New Yorker rated Train Dreams "a severely lovely tale" and Eileen Battersby of The Irish Times declares that "Johnson's novella, Train Dreams, a daring lament to the American West, is a masterpiece which should have won him the Pulitzer Prize but was short-listed in a year that the jury decided not to award it." [19] [20]
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
“Train Dreams” depicts that give-and-take dynamic, celebrating those who tamed the West — men whose anonymous, sunburned mugs appeared in antique photos, no bigger than Lincoln’s head on ...
Yellow tape blocks off the Blue Line train station in Forest Park, Ill., after four people were fatally shot on the train early on Sept. 2, 2024. “This appears to be an isolated incident on this ...
Upon publication—and somewhat belying the notion that Fitzgerald's most famous novel had not been enthusiastically received—The New York Times wrote, "The publication of this volume of short stories might easily have been an anti-climax after the perfection and success of The Great Gatsby of last Spring. A novel so widely praised — by ...
Charlie Colin, a founding member of the group Train, has died at the age of 58 after he slipped and fell in the shower while house-sitting for a friend in Brussels, Belgium.
The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (L'Homme qui regardait passer les trains), first published in French in 1938, is a crime thriller by Georges Simenon about a man's rapid descent into criminality and madness following sudden financial ruination. A film adaptation was released in 1952.