A Different Drummer by Kelley, William Melvin

A Different Drummer (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780385413909)

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A Different Drummer by Kelley, William Melvin

A Different Drummer

$16.00
A Different Drummer by Kelley, William Melvin

A Different Drummer

$16.00
Format: Paperback
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The stunning, thought-provoking first novel by a "lost giant of American literature" (The New Yorker)

June, 1957. One hot afternoon in the backwaters of the Deep South, a young black farmer named Tucker Caliban salts his fields, shoots his horse, burns his house, and heads north with his wife and child. His departure sets off an exodus of the state's entire black population, throwing the established order into brilliant disarray. Told from the points of view of the white residents who remained, A Different Drummer stands, decades after its first publication in 1962, as an extraordinary and prescient triumph of satire and spirit.

Author: William Melvin Kelley
ISBN-10: 0385413904
ISBN-13: 9780385413909
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 05/01/1990
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.05h x 5.19w x 0.54d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/18/1990
By William Melvin Kelley
By William Melvin Kelley
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William Melvin Kelley was born in New York City in 1937 and attended the Fieldston School and Harvard. The author of four novels and a short story collection, he was a writer in residence at the State University of New York at Geneseo and also taught at the New School and Sarah Lawrence College. He was awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for lifetime achievement and the Dana Reed Prize for creative writing. He died in 2017.

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