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A Different Drummer is the 1962 debut novel of William Melvin Kelley. It won the John Hay Whitney Foundation Award and Rosenthal Foundation Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. The title references Henry David Thoreau's lines: "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer..."
Set in a mythical backwater Southern town, A Different Drummer is the extraordinary story of Tucker Caliban, a quiet, determined descendant of an African chief who for no apparent reason destroys his farm and heads for parts unknown--setting off a mass exodus of the state's entire Black population.
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A Different Drummer by William Melvin Kelley review – powerful and timely. A reissued 1962 novel of the US civil rights era is belatedly – and deservedly – taking the literary world by storm ...
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May 1, 1990 · 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. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now.
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About A Different Drummer. 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.
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A Different Drummer. William Melvin Kelley. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1989 - Fiction - 205 pages. The stunning, thought-provoking first novel by a "lost giant of American literature"...
Jun 19, 2019 · A Different Drummer - Kindle edition by Kelley, William Melvin. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A Different Drummer.
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