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Scribner, May 2010
eBook, 240 pages
ISBN-10: 143912552X
ISBN-13: 9781439125526
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Winner of the National Book Award
"A novel in the honorable tradition of Billy Budd and Moby Dick…heroic in proportion… fiction that hooks into the mind." — The New York Times Book Review
"Long after we'd stopped believing in the great American novel, along comes a spellbinding adventure story that may be just that." — Chicago Tribune
"It's a joy to read fiction in which there is a cultivated vision at work...the greatest victory of Dreamer is the light it shines on the life of Martin Luther King Jr."
—Dennis McFarland, The New York Times Book Review
"In their remarkable simplicity these stories reach into...the African American experience with surprising freshness and the fluency of years of gathered wisdom. This book is a deeply satisfying reading adventure." — Black Issues Book Review
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The New York Times Book Review
It's a joy to read fiction in which there is a cultivated vision at work...the greatest victory of Dreamer is the light it shines on the life of Martin Luther King Jr.
Andy Solomon
The Boston Globe
With compelling profundity and power Johnson takes us to a time, one within living memory, when a "dreamer" among us saw love as our redemptive principle and strongest weapon before he "died for our collective racial sins."
Patricia Holt
San Francisco Chronicle
With his novelist's instinct, [Johnson] grips us immediately with a stunning doppelgänger theme.
John Marshall
Seattle Weekly
A deep look at the last two crisis years in the life of [King]...Johnson is an ambitious writer who is not satisfied with merely creating...passages of imagined thinking, however powerfully rendered.
Bruce Barcott
The Seattle Times
Masterfully rendered set piece...writing so assured and compelling...even when you already know the ending.
The Root, January 8, 2010
...course in post-academic life. The author, scholar and MacArthur “genius” winner charts a new course in post-academic life. Charles Johnson walks into the Faire Gallery & Café on Seattle’s Capitol Hill, deceptively low-key for one of ...
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