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Copy Link to Download : https://site.bookcenterapp.com/YUMPU/1400079837 Book Synopsis 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 (1874121922), the child of recent immigrants from the Bahamas, made the radical decision to don blackface makeup and play the 20coon.21 Behind this mask he became a Broadway headliner11as influential a comedian as Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and W. C. Fields, who called him 20the funniest man I ever saw, and the saddest man I ever knew.21 It is this dichotomy at Williams17 core that Phillips explores in this richly nuanced, brilliantly written novel, unblinking in its attention to the sinister compromises that make up an identity.

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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 (1874121922), the child of recent immigrants from the Bahamas, made the radical decision to don blackface makeup and play the 20coon.21 Behind this mask he became a Broadway headliner11as influential a comedian as Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and W. C. Fields, who called him 20the funniest man I ever saw, and the saddest man I ever knew.21 It is this dichotomy at Williams17 core that Phillips explores in this richly nuanced, brilliantly written novel, unblinking in its attention to the sinister compromises that make up an identity.

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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 (1874121922), the child of recent

immigrants from the Bahamas, made the radical decision to

don blackface makeup and play the 20coon.21 Behind this

mask he became a Broadway headliner11as influential a

comedian as Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and W. C. Fields,

who called him 20the funniest man I ever saw, and the

saddest man I ever knew.21 It is this dichotomy at Williams17

core that Phillips explores in this richly nuanced, brilliantly

written novel, unblinking in its attention to the sinister

compromises that make up an identity.

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