The Dream Dancer

Description:

A novel: THE DREAM DANCER: A Native American hero’s journey in which the monster is a U.S. Congressman and the netherworld is a Pennsylvania prison. The story opens in Paris in the dwindling days of the summer of 1956. Coop Rever, a Native American expatriate who is the protagonist of THE DREAM DANCER, is getting ready to travel to Algeria to gather material for his third book on the French Foreign Legion. Coop is a war correspondent and author, educated at the Sorbonne under the World War II GI Bill. Coop dreams that he has been chosen to be a messenger of God. Although skeptical and unwilling at the outset, Coop undertakes the role when the evidence that he is the chosen one becomes so overwhelming he cannot deny it.

subjects: War Correspondent,  Native American,  warrior,  dreams,  revenge,  prison,  beaver,  Great Spirit,  God,  Paris,  Pennsylvania,  George Washington,  escape,  waterfall,  French Foreign Legion,  broken treaty,  prejudice,  WWII,  Vietnam War,  Sand Hogs,  solitary confinement,  rape

People: Coop Rever,  war correspondent and the Dream Dancer

Places: Paris,  Brooklyn,  Northwestern Pennsylvania

Times: 1956