The Dream Peddler
Book description
If someone offered you a magic elixir that could conjure any dream you wanted . . . would you take it? Traveling salesmen like Robert Owens have passed through Evie Dawson’s town before, but none of them offered anything like what he has to sell: dreams, made to order, with…
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1 author picked The Dream Peddler as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
If you could buy the dream of your choice, would you? What would you dream about? How would that dream affect your reality? Would the dream, if only for a brief time, be your reality?
The Dream Peddler is a beautifully written novel that is about much more than dreams. Historical fiction set in a small town, we're immediately pulled into the lives of the townsfolk, their joys, their challenges, and, yes, their dreams.
I loved this novel as much for its character development as for its gentle probing of the nature of dreams and reality.
From C.J.'s list on the fluidity of reality.
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