A Different Drummer
the extraordinary rediscovered classic
$35.28
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
29 October 2018
Summary
‘More than lives up to the hype’ *Observer*
‘Set to become a publishing sensation’ Kirsty Lang, BBC Front Row
‘An astounding achievement’ *Sunday Times*
‘The lost giant of American literature’ *New Yorker*
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787478039 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787478033 |
| Author: | William Melvin Kelley |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2018 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 163mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
More than lives up to the hype … what a gift to literature that we have rediscovered it. - Observer
Simple, timeless, mythic … an astounding achievement … still relevant and powerful today. - Sunday TimesWonderful … full of dazzling moments of social and psychological observation that jump from the page as if they were written yesterday. - MetroSuperb … The comparisons of his debut to the books of James Baldwin and Faulkner are justified. - Irish TimesSet to become a publishing sensation. - BBC Front Row[A] masterpiece … Kelley wrote intricate novels that identified with the rejection of dominant social orders. - Public BooksA Different Drummer is a revelation. A story so vividly alive I closed the book a different person from the one who opened it. A vital classic of literature.Kelley blended fantasy and fact to construct an alternative world whose sweep and complexity drew comparisons to James Joyce and William Faulkner. - New York TimesAbout The Author
William Melvin Kelley
Born in New York in 1937, William Melvin Kelley was an African-American writer known for his satirical explorations of race relations in America. He was just twenty-four years old when his debut novel, A Different Drummer, was first published in 1962, earning him critical comparisons to William Faulkner and James Baldwin. Considered part of the Black Arts Movement, Kelley was in 2014 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’. He died in February of 2017, aged 79.
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