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A Darker Shade of Blue
By Angela Campion
The Erotic Awards' Writer of the Year, 2006
1926. Free-spirited Sara Newsome sails from England straight into the Harlem Renaissance
intending to do the impossible for a young black woman: exploit the erotic movie industry. In the
great Silent Era of motion pictures, there are no rules, and Sara makes her lovemaking as hot
on screen as it is when the lights go out. And there are plenty of conquests for her to choose from. Gil,
her collaborator and rival, haunted by his own creative limitations. The elusive Benjamin, an alcoholic white
millionaire whose rich-boy antics hide a man of profound conviction. And Paul Robeson, the legendary singer and
actor whose left-wing politics and fiery radicalism made him one of the heroes of the civil rights movement.
Follow Sara into the speakeasies and rent parties of Flappers' Harlem to the wild excesses of Thirties
Hollywood, from the studio boardrooms of the war era into the sinister Fifties, where political enemies
try to destroy all that Sara has achieved.
A Darker Shade of Blue is the extraordinary story of early Black Hollywood told through one incredibly
sensual heroine.
ISBN: 0-9544866-6-8
£7.99 UK
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