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Can I read Dancing In The Dark on EtoBox?
Dancing In The Dark by Caryl Phillips is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Dancing In The Dark about?
In this searing novel, Caryl Phillips reimagines the life of the first black entertainer in the U.S. to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune.After years of struggling for success on the stage, Bert Williams (1874–1922), the child of recent immigrants from the Bahamas, 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.” It is this dichotomy at Williams’ core that Phillips explores in this richly nuanced, brilliantly written novel, unblinking in its attention to the sinister compromises that make up an identity.
Who reads Dancing In The Dark?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Caryl Phillips
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Mystery, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.58 / 5 (112 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14