A Different Drummer
(Bog, Paperback, Engelsk)
- Type: Bog
- Format: Paperback
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Sprog:
Engelsk
- ISBN-13: 9781787478039
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A lost masterpiece republished for 2018, A Different Drummer is for readers who have been waiting for the next rediscovered classic! In 1962, aged just 24, William Melvin Kelley's debut novel A Different Drummer earned him critical comparisons to James Baldwin and William Faulkner. Fifty-five years later, author and journalist Kathryn Schulz happened upon the novel serendipitously and was inspired to write the New Yorker article 'The Lost Giant of American Literature', included as a foreword to this edition. - 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. The reaction that follows is told across a dozen chapters, each from the perspective of a different white townsperson. These are boys, girls, men and women; either liberal or conservative, bigoted or sympathetic - yet all of whom are grappling with this spontaneous, collective rejection of subordination ...
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| Forlag | Riverrun |
| Forfatter | William Melvin Kelley |
| Type | Bog |
| Format | Paperback |
| Sprog | Engelsk |
| Udgivelsesdato | 01-11-2018 |
| Oplagsdato | 01-11-2018 |
| Første udgivelsesår | 2018 |
| Sideantal | 336 |
| Indbinding | Paperback |
| ISBN-13 / EAN-13 | 9781787478039 |