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Dancing in the Dark

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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.

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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