Dancers in the Dark

Dancers in the Dark by Dorothy Speare is about dancer Joy Nelson and her fantastical life having fun with Jerry and the rest of her young, beautiful roommates. Excerpt: «Joy Nelson came into the room that she was sharing with two other girls, at half-past four in the morning. She was tired. She had been dancing steadily all night; her new silver slippers were killing her, and she was not accustomed to being up late. She could hardly wait to take her slippers off and get ready to sleep for a few hours. Her roommates, however, looked as if repose were the last thought they would allow to enter their jazz-surrounded heads. They were sitting on the bed, smoking. She had pretended not to see them until she realized that they were not in the least bit embarrassed.»