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Dancing in the Dark
Overview
After years of struggling for success, Bert Williams made the radical decision to don blackface makeup and play the "coon." Behind this mask he became a Broadway headliner as influential a comedian as Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and W. C. Fields, who called him "the funniest man I ever saw, and the saddest man I ever knew." This brilliantly written novel is unblinking in its attention to the sinister compromises that make up an identity.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781400079834
- ISBN-10: 1400079837
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: October 2006
- Dimensions: 7.98 x 5.32 x 0.58 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.53 pounds
- Page Count: 224
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