'I am humbled by Dreamer and grateful for it. It is a transcendent, brilliant book . No other novelist among us today has quite Charles Johnson's philosophical weight, intellectual force or spiritual understanding . This is a book to sustain us - black and white, all of us - and so powerfully wrought as to endure in our literature so long as our literature itself endures' - DAVID GUTERSON 'Like a skiff exploring history's more hidden currents, Johnson's poetic language drifts with care over the moiling currents of King's intellect, leaving in its wake a wonderful, prismatic novel, exhorting and testifying, but never preaching' - Guardian 'Dreamer is not content merely to explore inequality and its pesky moral dilemmas; it goes farther, to hold up a mirror in which the interrelatedness of these apparent opposites can be viewed . a lively tale that leaves the reader with enormous concerns to contemplate . It's a joy to read fiction in which there is a cultivated vision at work' - Dennis McFarland 'What unites Dreamer's diverse concerns - biography, politics, sociology, ethics - is its passionate desire to celebrate black history and to vindicate King - it is powerful as a moral tribute' - Sunday Times 'His fiction transcends the immediate concerns of race and colour, and will find its place in the great body of literature produced by America's humanitarian tradition' - Literary Review '' -.