| A Different Drummer Contributor(s): Kelley, William Melvin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0385413904 ISBN-13: 9780385413909 Publisher: Anchor Books OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1990 Annotation: Nearly three decades offer its first publication, "A Different Drummer remains one of the most trenchant, imaginative, and hard-hitting works of fiction to come out of the bitter struggle for African-American civil rights. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | African American - General - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Political |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 89018441 |
| Lexile Measure: 890 |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 5.19" W x 8.05" (0.57 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. His departure sets off an exodus of the state's entire black population, throwing the established order into brilliant disarray. 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. |