The Dreamers

by Vera Caspary

A blazing saga by the author of LAURA, THE DREAMERS takes for its background the turbulent events of half a century and takes for its theme the tempestuous quests of three sisters, each driven by the Cinderella dream, each spending her life in search of fame, fortune and great love.

There is Amy, who seeks independence in the uncompromising world of art. There is Norma, who seeks the unrestrained passion assured her by her wanton ways. And there is Ernestine, a rebel who seeks in the arms of women the love that men have denied her.

361 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Vera Caspary, an acclaimed American writer of novels, plays, short stories and screenplays, was born in Chicago in 1899. Her writing talent shone from a young age and, following the death of her father, her work became the primary source of income for Caspary and her mother. A young woman when the Great Depression hit America, Caspary soon developed a keen interest in Socialist causes, and joined the Communist Party under a pseudonym. Although she soon left the party after becoming disillusioned, Caspary's leftist leanings would later come back to haunt her when she was greylisted from Hollywood in the 1950s for Communist sympathies. Caspary spent this period of self-described 'purgatory' alternately in Europe and America with her husband, Igee Goldsmith, in order to find work. After Igee's death in 1964, Caspary returned permanently to New York, where she wrote a further eight titles. Vera Caspary died in 1987 and is survived by a literary legacy of strong independent female characters.