Dreamer

ISBN: 9780684854434

作者: Charles Richard Johnson

出版社: Simon & Schuster

出版年: 1999-2

页数: 236

定价: 108.00元

装帧: Pap

内容简介

Set against the tensions of Civil Rights era America, "Dreamer" is a remarkable fictional excursion into the last two years of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life, when the political and personal pressures on this country's most preeminent moral leader were the greatest. While in Chicago for his first northern campaign against poverty and inequality, King encounters Chaym Smith, whose startling physical resemblance to King wins him the job of official stand-in. Matthew Bishop, a civil rights worker and loyal follower of King, is given the task of training the smart and deeply cynical Smith for the job. In doing so, Bishop must face the issue of what makes one man great while another man can only stand in for greatness. Provocative, heartfelt, and masterfully rendered, Charles Johnson confirms yet again that he is one of the great treasures of modern American literature.