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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. [1] 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 ...
A Different Drummer is Kelley's extraordinary debut novel and was originally published in 1962. Described as a "lost masterpiece from a forgotten giant of American Literature," this novel won Kelley much critical acclaim with comparisons rolling in to writers such as James Baldwin and William Faulkner.
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May 1, 1990 · For more on Kelley, read the New Yorker piece by Kathryn Schulz Jan,29, 2018, the forward by David Bradloey in the 1989 Anchor Books edition of “A Different Drummer” and Kelley’s obituary in the Feb. 8, 2017, issue of the New York Times .“
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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 Mass Market Paperback – January 1, 1964. by William Melvin Kelley (Author) 4.5 172 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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 ...
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May 1, 1990 · A Different Drummer. 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 ...
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A Different Drummer. 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.
