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A Different Drummer: the extraordinary rediscovered classic William Melvin Kelley
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A Different Drummer: the extraordinary rediscovered classic
William Melvin Kelley
A lost masterpiece republished for 2018, A Different Drummer is for readers who have been waiting for the next rediscovered classic! In 1962, aged just 24, William Melvin Kelley's debut novel A Different Drummer earned him critical comparisons to James Baldwin and William Faulkner. Fifty-five years later, author and journalist Kathryn Schulz happened upon the novel serendipitously and was inspired to write the New Yorker article 'The Lost Giant of American Literature', included as a foreword to this edition. - June, 1957. One afternoon, in the backwater town of Sutton, a young black farmer by the name of Tucker Caliban matter-of-factly throws salt on his field, shoots his horse and livestock, sets fire to his house and departs the southern state. And thereafter, the entire African-American population leave with him. The reaction that follows is told across a dozen chapters, each from the perspective of a different white townsperson. These are boys, girls, men and women; either liberal or conservative, bigoted or sympathetic - yet all of whom are grappling with this spontaneous, collective rejection of subordination ...
336 pages
| Medie | Bøger Paperback Bog (Bog med blødt omslag og limet ryg) |
| Udgivet | 1. november 2018 |
| ISBN13 | 9781787478039 |
| Forlag | Quercus Publishing |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Antal sider | 336 |
| Mål | 198 × 131 × 19 mm · 276 g |
| Sprog | Engelsk |
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