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Dreamers, an Interracial Romance of the '60s
by
Margaret C. Murray (Goodreads Author)
It's the 1960s in America at the height of the Civil Rights showdown.
Street-savvy Thomas, desperate for stardom, meets music student, Annie, desperate for love.
To impress his struggling family, Thomas drives a flashy borrowed car home to Pittsburgh from New York City and is involved in a minor accident. What was a fender bender in a snowstorm escalates into a confrontatio...more
Street-savvy Thomas, desperate for stardom, meets music student, Annie, desperate for love.
To impress his struggling family, Thomas drives a flashy borrowed car home to Pittsburgh from New York City and is involved in a minor accident. What was a fender bender in a snowstorm escalates into a confrontatio...more
Paperback, 374 pages
Published
September 15th 2011
by WriteWords Press
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What is best about his novel is the complementary portrayal of the two main characters, each illuminating the other, and dissipating stereotypes we might carry with us to our reading. The novel is built around an interracial love affaire portrayed with searching detail both psychological and social. Murray’s presentation of the lovers and some of the other characters teaches us something about preconceptions. They approach stereotypes: the desperately shiftless black man, the nicey-poo white col...more
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