A Different Drummer by William Melvin Kelley

A Different Drummer by William Melvin Kelley

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.

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 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. In 2014 Kelley was officially credited by the Oxford English Dictionary with coining the political term woke, in a 1962 New York Times article entitled If You're Woke You Dig It.

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ISBN 13	9780385413909
ISBN 10	0385413904
Title	A Different Drummer
Author	William Melvin Kelley
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1990-05-01
Number of pages	224
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