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Dancing in the Dark [Secure Mobipocket]
by Caryl Phillips
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 A searing new novel that reimagines the remarkable, tragic, little-known life of Bert Williams (1874-1922), the first black entertainer in the United States to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune. Even as an eleven-year-old child living in Southern California in the late 1800s--his family had recently emigrated from the Bahamas--Bert Williams understood that he had to "learn the role that America had set aside for him." At the age of twenty-two, after years of struggling for success on ... more info>>
Category: Mainstream
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