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The Dead Are Dancing
William Lloyd Roller
Retail Price (not our price): $17.95
ISBN: 0887393845
ISBN-13: 9780887393846
Publication Date: 2002-06
Format: Paperback
Pages: 341


Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Book Description
There's trouble brewing in America's heartland. Traditional patriotic values have taken firm root in the community of Cannon, Illinois, and that's putting it mildly. The citizens unanimously send their sons off to war to kill and die for the greater glory of town and country. But Billy Richcreek knows something is off course with the focus on killing. And he can't just be dismissed as a nonconformist oddball: Billy is the start athlete on the high school football team, and above all others in his generation, he is the mayor's hope for a proud symbol of Cannon's willingness to fight. When the Vietnam war heats up in the 60s, Billy is faced with a dilemma. Does he keep to himself his reservations about what his town and his country are doing? Or does he risk being called unpatriotic because he speaks his conscience and questions the course of American foreign policy? The stakes are high as Billy stands to lose both his best friend and the woman he loves. The Dead Are Dancing exposes the folly of our devotion as a people to guns and empire.

Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5

1) A dazzling read.   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Serious satire, like any serious literature, causes us to re-examine our own way of looking things. Satire is a twisted vision, twisted in such a way that it forces us to see the deeper meaning in things and to make us ask questions about ourselves. The Dead are Dancing is a shinning example. Like Voltaire's Candide, The Dead are Dancing is wonderfully entertaining, utterly absorbing, and disturbingly violent. The image of America in The Dead are Dancing is shocking, all the more so because it will gradually dawn on you as you read it that what William Lloyd Roller, beneath the delightful strangness of his narrative, has uncovered is the sordid and ugly truth of our recent history. And with a visionary's clarity, he warns of an even more ugly and sordid future yet to come.