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From an award-winning novelist, the gripping story of a lynch mob on the trail of a couple thrown together in violence and fear
"Took him out back, so they said, and shot both his legs out from under him, then strung him up. Strung him up, then let him down, then strung him up again."
Beautiful Dreamer is the story of a white man thrown into company he wouldn't ordinarily choose to keep. He's tried to prevent a lynching; now he's branded a "nigger lover" - and, worse, he finds himself sheltering the dead man's son. When the mob comes round to finish the job, the two are forced to flee across country from men with nothing but vengeance on their minds. And always just a step behind is another, a law officer who has to choose between turning the customary blind eye and stopping the intolerable logic of racial hatred from playing itself out.
Vivid, haunting and beautiful, Christopher Bigsby's thrilling novel traces a contest between reluctant good and dedicated evil, where morality is a matter of life or death and the choices made have consequences as lasting as they are unexpected.
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About Christopher Bigsby Educated at Sutton Grammar School, Sheffield University and Nottingham University, Christopher Bigsby is a Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia, and runs the Arthur Miller Centre for American Studies there. As a broadcaster he presented Radio 4's KALEIDOSCOPE over eight years and is currently presenter of OFF THE PAGE. For the last 17 years he has chaired the British Council Seminar on Contemporary British writing, bringing participants from over 40 countries each year to meet with key British authors. For the last ten years he has also run the Arthur Miller Centre International Writers Festival, sponsored by Waterstones. In addition to three novels, he has written many academic books.
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