A Drop of Patience
$32.26
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
9 October 2019
Summary
At the age of five, a blind African-American boy is handed over to a brutal state home. Here Ludlow Washington will suffer for eleven years, until his prodigious musical talent provides him an unlikely ticket back into the world.
The property of a band, playing for down-and-outs in a southern dive, Ludlow’s pioneering flair will take him to New York and the very top of the jazz scene - where his personal demons will threaten to drag him back down to the bottom.
A DROP OF P…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787478077 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787478076 |
| Author: | William Melvin Kelley |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 9 October 2019 |
| Weight: | 234g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 26mm |
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A Drop Of Patience is a moving, painful and stinging experience. - New York Times Book Review
In this, as in his earlier books, Mr. Kelley writes with strength, simplicity and absolute honesty. - New York Herald TribuneKelley wrote intricate novels that identified with the rejection of dominant social orders. - Public BooksWithout being imitative he has shown that he belongs to that small company of modern authors who possess the accomplished touch of the creative artist. - AP NewsfeaturesThe Lost Giant of American Literature. - New YorkerKelley blended fantasy and fact to construct an alternative world whose sweep and complexity drew comparisons to James Joyce and William Faulkner. - New York TimesKelley is as good on disability as he is on race, and life for a blind person is skillfully depicted in his novel … There is plenty to recommend in its moving, honest account of a young black man trying to find his way in a hostile world … A thoughtful, inventive writer who was well before his time.About The Author
William Melvin Kelley
William Melvin Kelley was an African-American writer born in New York in 1937. He was known for his satirical explorations of race relations in America.
His debut novel, A Different Drummer, was published in 1962 when he was twenty-four years old, earning him critical comparisons to William Faulkner and James Baldwin. His second novel, A Drop Of Patience, was published in 1965.
Considered part of the Black Arts Movement, Kelley was officially credited by the Oxford English Dictionary in 2014 with coining the political term ‘woke.’ He used the term in a 1962 New York Times article entitled ‘If You’re Woke You Dig It.’
William Melvin Kelley died in February 2017, at the age of 79.
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