Beautiful Dreamer

12mo. Pp. 183, [1].

An American Library Association Notable Book for 2007. A white man is branded a 'nigger lover' after trying to prevent a lynching. Christopher Bigsby runs the Arthur Miller Centre for American Studies at the University of East Anglia alongside its International Writers' Festival.

"[A] tautly written and almost unbearably suspenseful parable of the tragedy of race relations in a backcountry Tennessee setting of some decades ago. It's a powerful Faulknerian vision made stark and compelling by its spare and pitiless language." –Joyce Carol Oates