<em>Winner of the National Book Award</em> <P>“A novel in the honorable tradition of Billy Budd and Moby Dick…heroic in proportion… fiction that hooks into the mind.” — <em>The New York Times Book Review</em> <P>“Long after we'd stopped believing in the great American novel, along comes a spellbinding adventure story that may be just that.” — <em>Chicago Tribune</em> <P>“It's a joy to read fiction in which there is a cultivated vision at work...the greatest victory of <em>Dreamer</em> is the light it shines on the life of Martin Luther King Jr.” <P>—Dennis McFarland, <em>The New York Times Book Review</em> <P>“In their remarkable simplicity these stories reach into...the African American experience with surprising freshness and the fluency of years of gathered wisdom. This book is a deeply satisfying reading adventure.” — <em>Black Issues Book Review</em>