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The Big Gold Dream
At a Harlem street sermon by Sweet Prophet Brown, fanatical Alberta Wright tells the crowd that she had a dream about three apple pies that burst open, filling her kitchen with hundred dollar bills.
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About The Big Gold Dream
At a Harlem street sermon by Sweet Prophet Brown, fanatical Alberta Wright tells the crowd that she had a dream about three apple pies that burst open, filling her kitchen with hundred dollar bills. Minutes later, she washes down a holy fifty-dollar bread crumb with some water blessed by the Sweet Prophet, goes into a fit, & drops dead. The story only gains momentum when the nickel-plated .38 wielding police duo of Grave Digger Jones & Coffin Ed Johnson are put on the case. The Big Gold Dream is one in a long series of violent, funny, & socially relevant crime thrillers by Chester Himes, who began his writing career while serving out a prison term for jewel theft in the early 1940s.
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